Mumbai: US President-elect Joe Biden, during his trip to India in 2013, told the audience that he has some distant relatives living in Mumbai.
Joe Biden reiterated his claim again two years later at an event in Washington, saying there are five Biden living in Mumbai. The 77-year-old Democrat is set to be sworn in as the 46th president of the United States in just over two months, and no one in Mumbai has turned up to claim he is related to Joe Biden.
Joe Biden said that some decades ago, shortly after he became a senator, he had received a letter from someone in Mumbai with the last name Biden. It was then that he learned of his “great, great, great, great grandfather” who had worked in the East India Company.
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“There are five Biden in Mumbai, India,” Biden had said. In 2013, when Biden traveled to Mumbai on his first vice presidential trip to India, he spoke about this letter he received when he first became a senator several decades ago.
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“It is an honor to be back in India and to be 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’m sorry I never followed him. Maybe some genealogist in the audience can follow up for me, but I got a letter from a gentleman named Biden, Biden, my name, from Mumbai, stating that they were related. ” Biden had told the Mumbai audience seven years ago, PTI reported.
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Later, in 2015, Biden had claimed that his “great, great, great, great grandfather,” George Biden, was a captain of the East India Trading company and after retiring he decided to settle in India and marry an Indian woman.
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He spoke at an event organized by the Confederation of Indian Industry and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the civil nuclear agreement between India and the United States.
However, he informed the audience at the time that he had not called his Mumbai relatives yet, it is unclear whether he managed to reach them.
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