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★National Rank
#4,826 of 8,776 · bottom 45.0%among candidates with at least one scored answer
Religion: Hindu (Tamil; sponsored a Hindu invocation in the VA House, Feb 2024)
Background: VA State Senator, SD-32 (Loudoun County), since Jan 2025 (won the Jan 7, 2025 special election to replace Suhas Subramanyam, elected to U.S. Congress); former Delegate HD-26 (2024-2025). First Indian-American immigrant elected to the VA House. M.S. Accounting (Old Dominion); career in finance/insurance.
VA State Senator, SD-32 (Loudoun); sitting since Jan 2025. [2026-06 RESOLUTE refinement, state tier] Reliably progressive record on the documented dimensions. SANCTITY OF LIFE: ReproRising 2025 'A+ Champion'; on the prevailing Democratic side of the reproductive-freedom constitutional amendment (SJ247/HJ1, 2025-2026); endorsed by Planned Parenthood Advocates of VA. MARRIAGE: on the prevailing Democratic side of the same-sex-marriage constitutional amendment (SJ249/HJR3, 2025-2026). SELF-DEFENSE: Giffords-endorsed 'gun safety champion'; sponsored HB22 (2024) banning auto-sears/'Glock switches'; gun-violence-intervention funding and ghost-gun-ban priorities. Dimensions with NO public record (family/child sovereignty, Christian liberty, public justice, federal overreach, border/immigration, most of economics, voter-ID/mail-in) left NULL — not inferred from party. Caveat: his individual roll-call line on the amendments was corroborated via the named ReproRising grade + party-line vote reporting (LIS is a JS app); the amendment votes are documented party-line Democratic passages while he held the seat.
Candidate opposes state recognition of same-sex marriage / civil unions / domestic partnerships, and supports state non-recognition resolutions where federally permitted
Candidate has voted for state school-choice (vouchers, ESAs, charter expansion) and supports state homeschool freedom statutes
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Candidate has voted for state law requiring parental notification + consent on minors' medical, mental-health, and gender interventions (incl. school counseling referrals)
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Candidate has voted for state law restricting CRT/SOGI/comprehensive-sex-ed/gender-ideology curricula in K-12
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Candidate has voted for state age-verification laws on pornographic content and state criminal penalties for sexualizing minors
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Candidate has voted for state RFRA-style protections for faith-based adoption + foster agencies; opposes state-mandated SS-couple placement
Candidate has voted for state law protecting cash as legal tender, opposing state-level CBDC pilot programs, and protecting crypto-as-property status
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Candidate supports sound-money policies including gold/silver as constitutional money and audit/abolition of the Federal Reserve
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Candidate has voted for state balanced-budget compliance + opposed state borrowing for non-capital expenditures
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Candidate has voted for state usury caps + state predatory-lending protections + state charitable-deduction parity
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Candidate has voted for state pension/treasury divestment from ESG-aligned funds (e.g., BlackRock) + state anti-monopoly enforcement against financial cartels
Candidate (state SoS/legislature) has voted for state hand-count requirements / opposed electronic voting machines
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Candidate (state SoS/legislature) has voted for state photo voter ID + citizenship verification at registration
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Candidate has voted to restrict state early-voting windows + tighten state absentee qualifications to verified medical/military
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Candidate has voted against state mass mail-in voting expansion, against state drop-box deployment, and against legalizing ballot harvesting
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Candidate (state SoS/legislature) has voted to ban state acceptance of private election grants ('Zuckerbucks') + state penalties for foreign interference
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ReproRising 2025 'A+ Champion'; on the prevailing Democratic side of the reproductive-freedom constitutional amendment (SJ247/HJ1) — does not affirm personhood from conception.
On the prevailing Democratic side of the same-sex-marriage constitutional amendment (SJ249/HJR3, 2025-2026) — does not affirm marriage as one man and one woman.
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