Kamala Harris is the daughter of an Indian immigrant and a Jamaican-born father (Archive)
New Delhi:
Kamala Harris, who has made history by becoming the first woman, the first black person, and the first Native American to become Vice President of the United States, paid tribute to her Indian mother.
“I am grateful to the woman most responsible for my presence here today, my mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris. When she came here from India at the age of 19, she may not have imagined this moment. But she believed deeply in America where one moment how this is possible, “said Kamala Harris in her first address to the nation as vice president-elect.
“I’m thinking of her and of generations of women, black women, Asian women, white women, Latina women, Native American women who throughout our nation’s history have paved the way for this moment tonight,” said the 57-year-old woman. to loud cheers at an outdoor rally in Joe Biden’s hometown of Wilmington, Delaware.
Kamala Harris is the daughter of an Indian immigrant and a Jamaican-born father. She is a Christian, but she also attended Hindu temples with her mother.
When Joe Biden chose her as his running mate, Kamala Harris touched on her Indian roots in her acceptance speech and spoke about her childhood trips to Tamil Nadu, the support she received from her “chittis (aunts)”.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi referred to her when he paid tribute to her “pioneering” success on Twitter. It is “a matter of immense pride not only for his Chittis, but also for all Indian-Americans,” he wrote.
As the world awaited the outcome of the American elections, Kamala Harris’s grandparents’ village of Thulasendrapuram, near Chennai, prayed. The election was finally called late on Saturday night in India.
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