Kamala Harris’ maternal uncle says her phone hasn’t stopped ringing since Saturday when Harris broke barriers to become the first female vice president-elect of the United States.
A resident of Malviya Nagar in Delhi, Gopalan Balachandran, 80, told Indian Express that he has been glued to the television for four days, watching the race for the 270 critical electoral votes that decided the fate of Joe Biden and Harris.
“I am very proud of Kamala, I will call her and congratulate her soon… My phone has not stopped ringing since the news came out,” said Balachandran, who is the brother of Harris’s mother, Shyamala Gopalan.
Now she will go to the United States with the rest of Harris’s family to attend the swearing-in ceremony in January 2021. “My daughter is already there, helping Kamala with her campaign. We will all fly … I wouldn’t miss it for nothing, ”the report quoted him as saying.
Harris, who will be the highest-ranking woman in American history, took the stage in Wilmington, Delaware on Sunday in a white suit honoring the women’s suffrage movement to the sounds of Mary J. Blige.
In a symbolic victory speech, she told the girls that she would not be the last. Introducing President-elect Joe Biden at an outdoor rally fueled by optimism, Harris, also the first Black and Native American woman to serve as vice president, wore a white suit in recognition of the suffrage movement that fought to give American women the vote a century ago. .
“While I may be the first woman in this office, I won’t be the last,” she said amid cheers and honks from the crowd gathered in socially estranged cars. “Because every girl who looks tonight sees that this is a country of possibilities.”
Harris promised to fight to “eradicate systematic racism” but, like Biden, he made a broad call for unity and said that Americans “have elected a president who represents the best in us.”
Harris also paid tribute to his mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris, who immigrated from India when she was 19 years old and died in 2009. “You may not have imagined this moment,” Harris said. “But she believed deeply in an America where a moment like this is possible.”
“So I’m thinking of her and the generations of women – Black, Asian, White, Latina, and Native American women throughout our nation’s history who have paved the way for this moment tonight.”
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