Kamala Harris remembers her mother ahead of her inauguration as US Vice President ANI | Updated: Jan 20, 2021 20:47 IST
Washington [US], January 20 (ANI): Ahead of becoming the first female, Black and Asian Vice President of the United States, Vice President-electKamala Harris remembered her mother, Shyamalan Gopalan Harris, just before the inauguration ceremony.
Posting a video on Twitter, Harris captioned it: I m here today because of the women who came before me.
In the video, Harris could be heard repeating her opening remarks after she and President-elect Joe Biden were projected as the winners of the presidential elections in November. To the woman most responsible for my presence here today: my mother, Shyamalan Gopalan Harris, who is always in our hearts. When she came here from India at the age of 19, she maybe didn t quite imagine this moment. But she believed so deeply in an America, where a moment like this is possible, she
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Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46th President of the United States as his wife Jill Biden holds a bible on the West Front of the US Capitol in Washington., January 20, 2021. Photo: Reuters/Kevin Lamarque
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