Residents in U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris’ ancestral village in southern India have been getting ready to carry prayers on election day on Tuesday in a Hindu temple greater than 8,000 miles (13,000 km) from Washington.
Harris’ maternal grandfather P.V. Gopalan was born greater than a century in the past within the leafy village of Thulasendrapuram in what’s now southern India’s Tamil Nadu state.
“There can be a particular prayer on Tuesday morning on the temple,” G. Manikandan, a villager who runs a small retailer close to the temple, mentioned. “Celebrations will comply with if she wins.”
On the temple, Harris’ identify is engraved right into a stone that lists public donations, together with that of her grandfather. Exterior, a big banner needs “the daughter of the land” success within the election.
Gopalan and his household migrated a couple of hundred miles to the coastal metropolis of Chennai, Tamil Nadu’s capital, the place he labored as a high-ranking authorities official till his retirement.
The village obtained world consideration 4 years in the past, when its residents prayed for victory for Harris’ Democratic Social gathering in 2020 earlier than celebrating her inauguration as U.S. Vice President by setting off firecrackers and distributing meals.
Harris and her Republican rival Donald Trump have been scrambling to get supporters to the polls in an traditionally shut contest, which implies it might take days for the winner to emerge.
