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Kamala Harris's Win Sparks Celebration in Indian Ancestral Village
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0:32Now PlayingWaking up to the news of Kamala Harris's election as U.S. President-elect Joe Biden's running mate on Sunday, overjoyed people in her small ancestral village Thulasendrapuram in India set off firecrackers, held up placards of her and offered prayers.
Thulasendrapuram, located 215 miles from the southern coastal city of Chennai, is the hometown of the maternal grandfather of Harris.
People in the village also shared sweets and performed music at a local temple as part of the celebrations.
The late mother of Harris also was born in India, before moving to the U.S. at the age of 19 to study at the University of California.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a tweet described Harris’s success as "pathbreaking", and a matter of immense pride not just for her relatives but also for "all Indian-Americans".
However, there has been both excitement and concern over Biden’s choice of Harris as his running mate.
Modi had invested in President Donald Trump, who visited India in February.
Modi's many Hindu nationalist supporters also were upset with Harris when she expressed concern about the divided Himalayan region of Kashmir, whose statehood India’s government revoked in August last year.
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