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In the second balloting Jindal faced the outgoing lieutenant governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco of Lafayette a Democrat. " He has been known by his nickname ever since though his legal name remains Piyush Jindal. That government can't work and therefore we should stop seeking a functioning government.

He won a plurality in the open primary in the 2003 Louisiana gubernatorial election but was defeated in the runoff by Democrat Kathleen Blanco. In 1996 Governor Murphy Foster appointed Jindal Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals and in 1999 he was appointed President of the University of Louisiana System. He ran for Governor of Louisiana again in 2007 and won a majority in the first round.