Governor Bobby Jindal to run for Senate: Report

Washington: Indian-American Governor of the Louisiana, Bobby Jindal will reportedly be running for the Senate. According to New York Magazine columnist who appeared on The Chris Matthews Show, Jindal is thinking about giving up his governorship and running for Senate.

He would be fighting David Vitter for the seat. Apart from an unsteady budget situation, Jindal was in the news recently for involving himself in an intraparty legislative race. The first-ever republican candidate he backed lost.

Meanewhile Jindal, has reached an agreement with an eminent US publisher to write a book "on the lessons he has learnt throughout his life."

The book set to be released in 2010 has further fuelled speculation of his expected Presidential run in 2012, even though Jindal, a rising star of the Republican party, and his office were quick to deny it.

Although a contract is yet to be signed, The Times-Picayune reported that Jindal has reached an agreement with Regnery Publishing, which has published political tomes by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, actor Chuck Norris and political commentator Ann Coulter, among others.

Jindal said the book will be a mix of biographical material, "lessons I've learnt throughout my life" and his thoughts on a range of policy issues, the newspaper said.

"I just want to offer my ideas and my experiences to the conversation," the Louisianan Governor was quoted as saying.

The Times-Picayune said much of the work on the book will be done by a co-author, Peter Schweizer, a Florida-based writer whose previous work includes non-fiction books about the Bush family and President Ronald Reagan, and a novel co-authored with former Secretary of Defence Caspar Weinberger.

Jindal said he would work on the book over the weekends and evenings and does not expect that this would take much of his time.

He told the paper that the ideas for the book are still being developed, and he expects much of the material to flow from extended interviews that he will do with Schweizer.

"It's certainly a long way from today to actually having something written," he was quoted as saying.

According to the daily, Jindal said he does not know how much money he will make from the book.