Posters with photographs of Kamala Harris wishing her success have been posted in the village.
Chennai:
Amid the delay and drama over the counting of votes in the US presidential election, thousands of miles away in India, villagers in the ancestral village of vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris look forward to seeing the result. of the elections.
Special prayers have been held in the village of Thulasenthirapuram in Tamil Nadu, the ancestral home of Kamala Harris’s diplomatic maternal grandfather PV Gopalan, whom she says had a great influence on her as a child.
Many houses like Vijayalakshmi’s in the village had their televisions tuned to the Tamil news channels that reported on the hard-contested US elections. The farmer’s wife who hosted reporters reporting on the village’s ties to Kamala Harris as her personal guests told NDTV “We are very proud of her. We want her to win.”
Special prayers have been held in the village of Thulasenthirapuram in Tamil Nadu.
Posters with photographs of the Democratic vice presidential candidate have been posted in town to wish her success.
On Tuesday there was even a special puja in this temple. Kamala’s recent contribution to the consecration of the temple has made her more beloved now.
The temple inscription is also engraved with the name of Kamala Harris in addition to those of many other donors, acknowledging her contribution of 5,000 rupees in 2014.
“She is the granddaughter of someone who was born here. We are very proud. One day she would become the president of the United States,” said N Krishnamurthi, a retired banking official.
The temple inscription is also engraved with the name of Kamala Harris in addition to those of many other donors, acknowledging her contribution of Rs 5,000 in 2014.
Just a few miles away, Sashtika and her family keep track of every electoral turn in America. For her, Kamala is a great inspiration. “As a woman, I am inspired that if we work with precision and diligence we can reach great heights,” she said.
Born to an Indian mother and a Jamaican father, Harris positions herself as an American of color who strikes a chord with both African-American and Indian-American voters.
He had previously shared his love for idli, “a really good sambar” and “any kind of tikka”.
The debate on Kamala Harris’s Indianness doesn’t matter to people here. It may not have visited this town, but many are proud of it and see in it a potential president of the United States in the making that they believe would make history.
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