PTI

Washington, Mar 24: Supriya Jindal, wife of Indian-American Republican leader Bobby Jindal, has denied that her husband is in the race for 2012 US presidential elections, saying that he is concentrating on his re-election as the governor of Louisiana in 2011.

In an interview to Meghan McCain and posted on The Daily Beast -- a popular American blog -- Supriya Jindal, 37, insisted that instead of talking about the 2012 presidential candidates, Americans should concentrate on the solving the problems being currently faced by the country.

Meghan is the daughter of Republican Senator John McCain, who lost to Barack Obama in the last year's presidential elections.

"It's very flattering, it's very nice," Supriya said when asked about news reports that her husband would be leading the Republican Party in the 2012 presidential elections.

"But I think the party as a whole and the country as a whole needs to focus on solutions right now and not focus on who the next candidate's going to be. All of that needs to go by the wayside. We have dire problems going on in the country and we need to focus on that right now," she said.

Bobby Jindal, the first Indian-American to be elected as a Governor of a US state, she said is right now focused on his job as the Louisiana governor.