Kamala Harris will be the US President in 2024, expressed her uncle G Balachandran on Saturday following the news that Joe Biden has defeated Donald Trump and is set to become the 46th president of United States.
Harris was the Democratic vice presidential nominee for the 2020 election and is set to become the vice president of the United States.
Balachandran is a former consultant at the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA).
On being asked about his reaction to much-awaited US elections results, he expressed, “I am relieved. My tension is gone.”
Born of Indian and Jamaican descent, Kamala Harris, a former California Senator, is setting several precedents with her win. She is the first woman, first Indian American, first black, first South Asian American and the first Asian ever elected to the position.
Her mother Shyamala Gopalan Harris, an alumna of Delhi University’s Lady Irwin College, had immigrated to the US from Chennai, and was part of the civil rights movement in the 1960s. She went on to become a breast cancer researcher. Her father Donald Harris had come to Berkeley to pursue a doctorate in economics, and is now an emeritus professor at Stanford.
The 56-year-old Oakland born politician has been the California Senator since 2017. She previously served as the attorney general of California between 2011 and 2017, and became the first woman of colour to be the district attorney of San Francisco in 2004, serving until 2011.
- Agencies