Inauguration of Kamala Harris, mother hometown India festival atmosphere

The village of Tulasendrapuram in India celebrating the inauguration of US Vice President Kamala Harris. © AFP=News1

With US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris taking office on the 20th (local time), the village of Tulasendrapuram, India, the home of Vice President Harris’ foreign grandfather, is also a party atmosphere, Bloomberg reported on the day.

According to Bloomberg News, the villagers of Tulasendrapuram held a portrait of Vice President Harris on the same day and shouted “Long live Kamala Harris,” and when Vice President Harris made the oath, they set off firecrackers.

Vice President Harris’ maternal grandfather was born 100 years ago in the village of Tulasendrapuram, Tamil Nadu, India. Later, he moved to Chennai, a metropolitan city, where he met Harris’ maternal grandmother and gave birth to Harris’ mother.

After leaving for the United States to study at the University of California, Harris’ mother met a Jamaican man and gave birth to a daughter.

Vice President Harris is also known to have visited the village of Tulasendrapuram when he was 5 years old.

Meanwhile, Vice President Harris was inaugurated on this day as the first woman in history and as vice president of African Americans and South Asians. In his last speeches, Vice President Harris has often explained how his roots and the values ​​of his Indian-born maternal grandfather and mother influenced him.

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