Bangalore: R Khanna, an Indian American has a raised a record amount of $1.2 million in a single quarter for a congressional seat in 2014.The report by the Federal Elections Commission disclosed the information regarding fund raising.

35 year old Khanna is one of the highest ranking Indian Americans, who served for two years in a chief position in the Obama administration.

Khanna worked for the US and foreign commercial service as the Deputy assistant secretary, for two years. At present, Khanna is the ‘Of Counsel’ at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, a law firm where he specializes in intellectual property and clean technology law.

Khanna has not yet revealed any information on which district he will run from 2014 or whether he will run any district or not. But it seems like he will contest from District 15 of California, a newly redistricted congressional district.

The northern part of Fremont comes under District 15, where considerable population of Indian Americans resides. The district also covers Union City and Newark which is native to a large number of South Asian Americans.

"I am most excited by the ideas and energy brought to our campaign by some of our nation's greatest innovators such as Reid Hoffman, Marc Andreessen and Peter Thiel” Khanna said.He also said that he learned a lot about what America needs to create an ecosystem for innovation in the 21^st century.

Google investor Ram Shriram, Tibco founder Vivek Ranadive, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen and political activist Sheffali Duggal are some of the top donors as per the report by FEC.