Indian-origin Kashyap Kash Patel was sworn in as director of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Saturday, placing his hand on the Bhagavad Gita. According to the New York Times, he was sworn in by US Attorney General Pam Bondi.
After Trump’s inauguration, President Donald Trump also praised him, saying that he was very popular with FBI agents, which is why he wanted to give him this important responsibility. He is confident that Patel will be recognized as the most capable FBI director ever.
Patel said- I am living the American Dream
Kash Patel is the ninth officer to lead the FBI. After taking the oath, he said that many people say that the American Dream is over, but they should see that I am living the American Dream.
Patel said-
You are talking to a first-generation Indian who is going to lead a major government agency of the greatest nation in the world. This could not happen anywhere else.
2 Republican Senators Voted Against Kash Patel
The US Senate on Thursday approved the appointment of Kash Patel by a margin of 51-49. In addition to the Democratic Party MPs, two Republican MPs, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski, voted against Patel.
Opposition Democratic Party MPs fear that after taking office, Kash Patel will follow Donald Trump’s orders and target his opponents.
Parents born into a Gujarati family fled Uganda
Kash Patel is the son of Indian immigrants. He was born into a Gujarati family. Kash Patel’s parents fled to the United States via Canada after Ugandan ruler Idi Amin ordered them to leave the country in the 1970s. Patel’s father got a job with an airline after he became a U.S. citizen in 1988.
After completing his law degree in 2004, Patel started working as a government lawyer when he couldn’t find a job at a major law firm. However, he had to wait 9 years for the job he wanted.
Kash Patel joined the Justice Department in Washington in 2013. After three years there, in 2016, Patel was appointed as a staff member on the House Intelligence Committee, headed by David Nunes, a staunch Trump ally.
Kash Patel is originally from Bhadran, and even today, land is in the name of his father and grandfather.
Kashyap Kash Patel is originally from Bhadran. His ancestral house was in Mahadevwala Phalia in Bhadran village. His grandfather Rameshbhai Patel had gone to Uganda, Africa, about 70 to 75 years ago and settled there. After the persecution of Idi Amin, his family fled to Canada and from there to America. He has sold his ancestral house in Mahadevwala Phalia in Bhadran village of Borsad taluka. Currently, there is open land at that place. Also, there are ancestral lands of his paternal grandfather on the outskirts of Bhadran village, in which the names of Kashyap Patel’s father and grandfather are still mentioned.
There is an atmosphere of excitement in Bhadran village regarding this appointment. The chest of the villagers is swelling. Regarding this, Yashbhai Patel, a resident of Bhadran village, said that Kashyap Patel is our family brother. My grandfather and his grandfather were cousins. Their lands are also currently located in Bhadran. The house they had has been sold. This is a very proud moment for our entire family and clan as our family brother has been appointed as the director of the FBI.
According to a New York Times report, as President, Trump pressured Ukraine to gather information about Joe Biden’s son in 2019. This angered the opposition. To avoid any legal complications, Trump created a team of advisors to help in this matter. Kash Patel’s name was also among them. Then everyone was surprised to see his name.
Kash Patel continued to climb the ladder of success after joining the Trump administration in 2019. He stayed in the Trump administration for only 1 year and 8 months, but came to everyone’s attention. In a report in The Atlantic magazine, Patel has been described as someone who was ready to do anything for Trump.
In the Trump administration, where almost everyone was already loyal to Trump, he was counted among Trump’s most loyalists. This is why many officials feared him.
Wrote a book on Trump, helped with that too
Kash Patel has served as a senior advisor to the Director of National Intelligence. During this time, he oversaw the operations of 17 intelligence agencies. While holding this position, Patel was involved in many important matters. He has been involved in the elimination of ISIS leaders, al-Qaeda’s Baghdadi and Qasim al-Rimi, as well as in the mission to free several American hostages.
Since Trump left office, Kash Patel has continued to push the former president’s agenda. Kash has written a book called “Government Gangsters: The Deep State, the Truth, and the Battle for Our Democracy,” in which he exposes the extent of corruption in government.