new york as the race to the white house enters its final lap over 1100 prominent members of the asianamerican community including indianamerican elected officials artists business and community leaders have endorsed democratic presidential candidate joe biden and his running mate kamala harristhe list of the asian americans and pacific islanders aapi endorsing biden for president and harris for vice president includes prominent indianamericans who are serving as elected officials as well as those from the fields of healthcare business and artsthe 1100 signatories represent aapi leaders from all backgrounds and ethnicities across the country and build on the previous list of 250 aapi endorsers that was released in july 2020live updates us presidential electionsnever before has the aapi community banded together with such unity and excitement in a presidential election said democratic national committee dnc aapi caucus chair bel leonghong who organised the listwe are made up of almost 20 different ethnic groups yet are united in our resounding support for biden and harris to lead our country and world out of the mess president donald trump has createdleonghong said the people in the list come from all walks of life with different languages culture and heritage but we share the same hopes and dreams for a better futurethe list of more than 1100 supporters includes prominent members of the democratic party including the dnc and the aapis for biden coalition which is made up of more than 14 affinity groups including south asians for bidenamong the prominent indianorigin endorsers are congressmen raja krishnamoorthi and ami bera congresswoman pramila jayapal former assistant secretary for south and central asia in us department of state nisha desai biswal chair of maryland democratic party aapi leadership council devang shah chair of democratic asian americans of virginia daav praveen meyyan assembly member ash kalra of california state assemblycandidate for us house of representatives sri kulkarni former ceo of democratic national committee seema nanda chair of howard county maryland democratic party aapi caucus dhaval shah vice chair of fairfax county virginia democratic committee manisha singh chair of monmouth county new jersey democrats south asian caucus ritesh shah are also in the listit also includes former chief of staff and senior advisor in the office of the us surgeon general parag mehta and community leaders india heritage group founder parag parikh president of global organisation of people of indian origin jay bhandari and cofounder and board chair desis for progress nisha ramachandranmeanwhile the biden campaign on saturday released a starstudded video of prominent aapi personalities voicing their support for biden and harris urging americans to vote for everything that mattersthe 60second video features indianamerican television host and author padma lakshmi who urges people to vote for our children and actor and producer mindy kaling who says its going to take all of usthe celebrities join harris in saying when we vote things change when we vote we winthe video features actor aasif mandvi actors dwayne the rock johnson george takei kumail nanjiani and lucy liu