Aug 27, 2020 08:16 am IST Team, Washington
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Presidential elections are going to be held in America in November during the Corona period and efforts are already being made for this. Efforts are on to woo NRIs in the US Presidential elections. All the candidates are constantly trying to woo Indian voters by mentioning India. Indian-origin Kamala Harris, the Vice Presidential candidate from the Democratic Party, has remembered her grandfather and said that she has learned the importance of democracy from her grandfather only.
Democratic Party’s Vice Presidential candidate Kamala Harris, remembering her grandfather on Wednesday (local time), said that her grandfather P.V. Gopalan would often take her on morning walks on the seashore in India, where he would discuss the importance of democracy and the fight for civil rights.
She wrote in her tweet, ‘When I was young, my grandfather would often take me on morning walks in India, where he would discuss the importance of democracy and the fight for civil rights.’ He said that he still remembers these words of his grandfather and this commitment and fight for a better future is still within him.
As a young girl, my grandfather would often take me on his morning walks in India, where he’d discuss the importance of fighting for democracy and civil rights.
That commitment and that fight for a better future lives on in me to this day. pic.twitter.com/xwmVik6pzA
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) August 26, 2020
Kamala Harris’s tweet is accompanied by a 57-second video, in which there are old photographs of her and her family and she is seen with her family. In this video, Kamala Harris says, ‘My grandparents were phenomenal. We would come back to India every second year. My grandfather was a defender of India’s independence and fought for it. When I was a little girl, being the eldest granddaughter, my grandfather used to take me for morning walks.
“Those morning walks on the beach in India really planted something in my mind and created a commitment in me,” Harris said. That’s why I’m here today. Let us tell you that Kamala Harris has accepted the Democratic nomination for the post of Vice President. Kamala Harris’s roots are linked to India. Kamala Harris’s mother Shyamala Gopalan was a resident of Chennai.
