Asserting that the country needs "a doer and not a talker", louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has said he will provide "real leadership" to America if elected president in the November 2016 elections.
Jindal, 44, whose parents immigrated to the US from Punjab before he was born, is the first Indian-American to ever run for a US presidential elections.
Though currently faring at 13th position among crowded 17 Republican presidential candidates, Jindal for some political analysts made an impressive appearance at the first televised Republican presidential debate by the Fox News for those who could not make it to the main discourse for the top 10 candidates.
"I think the American people are looking for real leadership. That's what I've done in louisiana, that's what I'll do in America," Jindal asserted in his opening remarks at the top of the debate that was held by Fox News in Cleveland, Ohio.
"I've got the backbone, I've got the band width, I've got the experience to get us through this. I'm asking folks not just to join my campaign, but join a cause. It is time to believe in America again," he said in his closing remarks at the hour-long debate.
The louisiana Governor used the occasion to slam not only US President Barack Obama but also his other top Republican opponents. "We've got a lot of great talkers running for President. We've already got a great talker in the White House. We cannot afford four more years of on the job training. We need a doer, not a talker. We also need a nominee, a candidate who will endorse our own principles," he said.
"Jeb Bush says we've got to be willing to lose the primary in order to win the general. let me translate that for you. That's the establishment telling us to hide our conservative principles to get the left and the media to like us. That never works. If we do that again, we will lose again, we will deserve to lose again," said the presidential hopeful.
"One principle, for example, we've got to embrace is on immigration. We must insist on assimilation -- immigration without assimilation is an invasion. We need to tell folks who want to come here, they need to come here legally. They need to learn English, adopt our values, roll up their sleeves and get to work," he said.
Responding to a question, Jindal described Hillary Clinton, the leading Democratic presidential candidate as "socialist and government dependent".
When asked how he would fight against militant group Islamic State, Jindal said, unlike Obama he will actually name the enemy that the US confronts. "We've got a President who cannot bring himself to say the words "radical Islamic terrorism." He loves to criticise America, apologise for us, criticise medieval Christians," he said.
"How can we beat an enemy if our commander-in-chief doesn't have the moral honesty and clarity to say that Islam has a problem, and that problem is radical Islam, to say they've got to condemn not generic acts of violence, but the individual murderers who are committing these acts of violence," Jindal said.
"We've got a President who instead says, we're going to change hearts and minds. Well, you know whatIJ Sometimes you win a war by killing murderous, evil terrorists. We're going to take the political handcuffs off the military. We will arm and train the Kurds. We will work with our Sunni allies. They know we will be committed to victory," he said.
"We had this failed red line with Assad and it discouraged folks that want to help us on the ground. Finally, we'll take off the political handcuffs. We'll go to the Congress. This president has gone to Congress and said give me a three-year deadline, give me a ban on ground troops. I'm going to go to the commanders and say give me a plan to win. You can't send your troops into harm's way unless you give them every opportunity to be successful," Jindal said.
Alleging that under Obama and Clinton the Democrats are working hard to change the American dream into the European nightmare, Jindal said, "They do celebrate more dependence on the government. Give Bernie Sanders credit. At least he's honest enough to call himself a socialist. Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, they're no better. If we were to expand Medicaid, for every uninsured person we would cover, we'd kick more than one person out of private insurance or remove their opportunity to get private insurance."