Bobby Jindal Birth Certificate Released (PHOTO)

Hoping to avoid a struggle similar to that between President Obama and the so-called "birther movement," Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal released his own birth certificate on Friday.

Jindal, who is of Indian heritage, publicly issued the document "knowing that his own status will certainly be examined in the event he ends up on a presidential ticket," The Times-Picayune reports.

Born Piyush Jindal on June 10, 1971, the former congressman arrived in the U.S. in utero, his mother, Raj Jindal, three months pregnant and moving to Baton Rouge with a scholarship offer to study nuclear physics at Louisiana State University.

According to a Jindal spokesperson, the governor's parents entered the U.S. in 1971 on green cards secured through Bobby's father, Amar Jindal and his participation in "a program by the federal government to increase the number of engineers."

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Comments

[AlBme]

02:28 PM on 05/18/2011

Never mind your birth certificate. If you want to be President one day, you need to work on your presidential walk. Seriously.

[Herbert Murray]

03:15 PM on 05/14/2011

HE IS OK.

[LSP]

04:50 PM on 05/13/2011

That's a copy. Does anyone at the hospital remember him? If not, I don't believe it.

[builderman55]

11:46 AM on 05/12/2011

Now can we get Palin and Bachmann's "earth certificates?"

[Howard Sternner]

12:30 AM on 05/12/2011

Piyush Jindal the true meaning of an Anchor Baby

[wilray]

07:55 PM on 05/10/2011

Piyush Piyush n da bush

[ema123]

07:28 PM on 05/10/2011

I dont think any one has asked to see it.

[Brima Bah]

05:53 PM on 05/10/2011

HEY MR,JINDAL YOU GET LIFE IN INDIA BEFORE YOU MOM ENTER THE US,WHAT ABOUT THAT FOR THE LIFE LOVING REPUBLICANS.

[peachfuzz]

05:35 PM on 05/10/2011

OH WELL! This changes ... nothing.

[molgen6]

11:40 AM on 05/17/2011

if the requirement to stand for the President's Office is - a naturally born citizen- he was born to green card holders and not to US citizens

[JimNast]

11:24 AM on 05/10/2011

This one is clearly marked "copy" at the bottom. We want the ORIGINAL long form birth certificate, signed by 2 witnesses, attending physicians, and nurses. I also want to hear Oily Taytz's comments on this.... he is clearly an anchor baby.

[asmir]

11:08 AM on 05/10/2011

a hummus maker he should be!

[LALC]

11:33 AM on 05/10/2011

You know Asmir, I just don't get the slam! Why is this knid of comment so "funny" from Dems yet so offensive from Repubs?

[LALC]

11:02 AM on 05/10/2011

Wonder if this will be a new trend with every non-white, "foreign-looking" politician (maybe with every 1st generation white person too)?

[chriss0114]

10:50 AM on 05/10/2011

being brown is one thing but your a Repub so no one cares -- the O would have had no problems if he were a Repub -- the issue would never have come up

[LALC]

11:17 AM on 05/10/2011

I too have thought the same "if Obama were Repub", well, a lot of things wouldn't have mattered. As a matter of fact, they would have embraced him with open arms - bragging about his ethnicity & their party's all-inclusiveness! OMG, the fact that his father was from AFRICA, I can hear it now!!

[thepill]

09:36 AM on 05/10/2011

I'd like to demand that Governor Jindal release his Dental Records.

[zeke67]

09:24 AM on 05/10/2011

No "Bobby", we want the long-form birth certificate. And this one looks fake.