Kamala To Contest U.S. Poll

First black & Indian American Woman to contest on Democratic Ticket

- K.V. Venugopal

The Indian people all over the world, especially from Tamil Nadu were delighted when the U.S. Senator Kamala Harris, the first black and Indian American woman was chosen to be the running mate of Democratic candidate for the Presidency, Joe Biden. Incidentally, Kamala was born in 1964, to Shyamala Gopalan, a cancer research analyst from Chennai, and Donald Harris, an economics professor from Jamaica. She rose to greater heights as a District Attorney of San Francisco in 2004 and seven years later became the first female Attorney General of California. She was also acclaimed as a progressive prosecutor and played a pivotal role in bringing down the record of the death penalty in the criminal system. Kamala did not bother when a section of critics blamed her for her pro-establishment stance while initiating stringent action against the notorious criminals during her tenure as Attorney General. Allaying fears that a Democrat Party President would be detrimental to India’s prospects, the duo unveiled a foreign policy brief that appears to tally with the interest of the Indian government led by Narendra Modi.

The Biden-Harris combine not only boasted their connection with India’s age-old traditions, but the septuagenarian also reminded India about the important role played by him in clearing the decks for the Indo-US nuclear deal during the tenure of Manmohan Singh government.