When Joe Biden announced that Kamala Harris will be his running mate, the Indian diaspora in the US felt that their 'holy grail' moment had arrived and are chafing to see the daughter of their soil in the saddle. The Tamil fraternity across the globe went into a frenzy when she referred to uncles and "chithis" of her family in her acceptance speech.
The Indian Americans predilection to see a PIO on the coveted post is based on the hopes that she will be buttressing and future proofing their livelihood in the land of Uncle Sam.
Just because her roots are from India and her maternal kith & kin are still there residing in a quaint old houses in India you can't be gung ho that KH will be pro India. It's irrefutable that this ideology is not germane to her line of thinking. If you look at her past statements on Kashmir and on Modi we can say with certitude that she would slam dunk this belief in no time.
Being committed to liberal politics and her constituency being in her backyard in US she would naturally tread cautiously on sensitive issues involving India and steer clear of being labelled pro India else she would have to face the music from political gadflies who are by nature implacable.
Swaminathan. T
Very Eloquent.. summed it up quite well. I agree - except having roots in India, she is grounded in the USofA passing irrelevant comments on Indian affairs with out any understanding of realities..
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