U.S. Senate candidate Dr Shiva Ayyadurai to get on the Ballot

Dr Shiva Ayyadurai became the first U.S. Senate candidate in Massachusetts to get on the ballot. He is running as an Independent, had 10,354 signatures certified yesterday by the Secretary of State's office to become an official candidate for the U.S. Senate election. He was accompanied by his supporters when the certified signatures were submitted. Dr Ayyadurai's campaign is a unique grassroots campaign and his volunteers collected each of these signatures. Republicans and Democrats typically buy signatures by paying a professional firm and Elizabeth Warren's campaign is expected to do just that.

"We collected every signature ourselves based on our message. This is a real grassroots movement and our success is a real threat to the Establishment," said Dr Ayyadurai who holds four degrees from M.I.T., including a Ph.D. Dr Ayyadurai's opponent is the Democrat Elizabeth Warren who has voted for the Monsanto Protection Act, lobbied the Defense Secretary to procure defective equipment of the War Industry, and held secret meetings with Wall Street honchos.

The Republican Party is considered irrelevant in Massachusetts and has lost support as the leaders of the party typically concede the seat without putting up a real fight and their strategists mark the seat as a "safe blue seat". In contrast, Dr Ayyadurai has emerged as a real challenger and Elizabeth Warren is in serious danger of losing her seat.

Recently, when Dr Ayyadurai was speaking on the roadside, he was physically attacked by a supporter of Elizabeth Warren, who was subdued, arrested and taken away by the police. Dr Ayyadurai has implored Elizabeth Warren to disavow herself from this hate crime, but in an act of tacit approval of this act of violence, there has been no response from Warren so far.