Kamala Harris
Washington: An Indian American fundraiser for the campaign of Democratic Party’s presumptive presidential candidate Kamala Harris has urged the country’s Vice President to visit her maternal home in Chennai if she is elected president in the general election. Harris (59) is the Democratic Party’s presumptive candidate for the US presidential election proposed in November. She officially announced her candidacy for the presidency last week after President Joe Biden withdrew from the race. However, the Democratic Party has not yet declared her as its official candidate.
Kamala’s memories are associated with Chennai
“If she is elected, I will pressurise her and say, ‘Let’s go to India. You have to go to Chennai. You can go to Delhi. Delhi is good, but we have to go to Chennai too,'” Shekhar Narasimhan, president and founder of the Asian American Pacific Islanders (AAPI) Victory Fund, told PTI in an interview. Chennai was the hometown of Harris’ mother Shyamala Gopalan, who moved to the US at the age of 16 to pursue higher education. Harris often visited Chennai as a child and has fond memories of the place.
there will be a grand welcome
Harris had visited the city in 2009 with her mother’s ashes and immersed them in the Indian Ocean. “I had written in one of my articles that my mother is from Chennai and her mother is also from Chennai, so I said it is my dream that she becomes the President and we go to Chennai. She will get a grand welcome there and she should get one,” Narasimhan said.
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