In 2013, Joe Biden narrated his “Biden of Mumbai” story.
Mumbai:
When the president-elect of the United States, Joe Biden, was in the financial capital of India in 2013, he had told the audience that his distant relatives live in Mumbai.
Biden reiterated his claim two years later at an event in Washington, saying there are five Biden living in Mumbai.
With the 77-year-old Democrat set to be sworn in as the 46th president of the United States in just over two months, no one in Mumbai has so far turned up to claim that he is related to Biden.
Decades after receiving a letter from someone with the surname Biden in Mumbai, shortly after he became a senator, Joe Biden learned that his “great, great, great, great grandfather” had worked at the East India Company.
“There are five Biden in Mumbai, India,” Biden, then vice president, told an audience in Washington in 2015 at an event organized by the Confederation of Indian Industry and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace to mark India’s 10th anniversary. United States civil nuclear agreement.
In 2013, when Biden traveled to Mumbai on his first vice-president trip to India, he spoke about this letter he received when he first became a senator several decades ago.
In his speech at the Bombay Stock Exchange on July 24, 2013, Joe Biden recounted his “Biden of Mumbai” story.
“It is an honor to be back in India and here in Mumbai. Off script for a second here, I was reminded that I was elected to the United States Senate as a 29-year-old boy in 1972, and one of the first letters I received and I regret never having followed him.
“Maybe some genealogist in the audience can follow up on me, but I got a letter from a gentleman named Biden – Biden, my name – from Mumbai, stating that they reacted to us,” Joe Biden told the Mumbai audience seven years ago.
In his 2015 speech in Washington, the president-elect had stated that his “great, great, great, great grandfather,” George Biden, was a captain of the East India Trading Company and, upon retirement, decided to settle in India and marry a Indian woman.
Biden also said someone provided him with the details, including phone numbers for the Bidens in Mumbai.
He had informed the audience that he had not called his Mumbai relatives yet, but planned to do so.
It is unclear if Joe Biden managed to get in touch with them, as the five Biden he spoke of have not “turned up” yet.
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