<p>Kamala Harris's Indian family huddled around a television to watch her inauguration as US Vice-President, but they plan on being there in person in four years if she becomes America's number one.</p>.<p>The first female, Black and south Asian vice-president in US history was born in California but her mother took her on several trips to India as a child, and her links to the country have set its 1.3 billion people abuzz.</p>.<p>"I wish she does such a damn good job, four years later she will automatically get a Democratic nomination and win the presidency," said Harris's uncle Gopalan Balachandran.</p>.<p>Balachandran could not be in Washington to see Harris sworn in on Wednesday because of the coronavirus pandemic.</p>.<p>"It would have been nice to have been there," the uncle told AFP, but he hopes to travel to the United States at a later date if he can secure a vaccination.</p>.<p>US media reports have spoken of a possible deal under which President Joe Biden, 78, will serve only one term, leaving Harris a clear run to the Democratic Party's candidacy in the next election.</p>.<p>Balachandran's daughter, Sharada Balachandran Orihuela, an English professor at the University of Maryland, was at the ceremony and was pictured with Harris.</p>.<p>Hours before the event, Harris, 56, posted a video on Twitter in which she credited the women who have inspired her, including her late mother Shyamala Gopalan, a breast cancer specialist who was born in India.</p>.<p>"She (Kamala) did everything on her own. If anybody, her beacon was her mother," Balachandran said.</p>.<p><strong>Also read: <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/international/world-news-politics/your-continued-faith-in-me-has-brought-me-to-this-moment-harris-credits-her-indian-mom-941571.html" target="_blank">'Your continued faith in me has brought me to this moment', Harris credits her Indian mom</a></strong></p>.<p>Celebrations for the inauguration were held in the family's ancestral village, Thulasendrapuram, in Tamil Nadu state, with firecrackers set off and people clapping and cheering as Harris took the oath.</p>.<p>Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Harris, calling her swearing-in a "historic occasion".</p>.<p>Modi said he was "looking forward to interacting with her to make India-USA relations more robust. The India-USA partnership is beneficial for our planet."</p>.<p>Balachandran, a former academic, expressed doubt however that Harris's connections would be an advantage for India.</p>.<p>"They won't go out of the way to criticise India. What they won't do is give a carte blanche to India to do whatever it wants," he said.</p>
<p>Kamala Harris's Indian family huddled around a television to watch her inauguration as US Vice-President, but they plan on being there in person in four years if she becomes America's number one.</p>.<p>The first female, Black and south Asian vice-president in US history was born in California but her mother took her on several trips to India as a child, and her links to the country have set its 1.3 billion people abuzz.</p>.<p>"I wish she does such a damn good job, four years later she will automatically get a Democratic nomination and win the presidency," said Harris's uncle Gopalan Balachandran.</p>.<p>Balachandran could not be in Washington to see Harris sworn in on Wednesday because of the coronavirus pandemic.</p>.<p>"It would have been nice to have been there," the uncle told AFP, but he hopes to travel to the United States at a later date if he can secure a vaccination.</p>.<p>US media reports have spoken of a possible deal under which President Joe Biden, 78, will serve only one term, leaving Harris a clear run to the Democratic Party's candidacy in the next election.</p>.<p>Balachandran's daughter, Sharada Balachandran Orihuela, an English professor at the University of Maryland, was at the ceremony and was pictured with Harris.</p>.<p>Hours before the event, Harris, 56, posted a video on Twitter in which she credited the women who have inspired her, including her late mother Shyamala Gopalan, a breast cancer specialist who was born in India.</p>.<p>"She (Kamala) did everything on her own. If anybody, her beacon was her mother," Balachandran said.</p>.<p><strong>Also read: <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/international/world-news-politics/your-continued-faith-in-me-has-brought-me-to-this-moment-harris-credits-her-indian-mom-941571.html" target="_blank">'Your continued faith in me has brought me to this moment', Harris credits her Indian mom</a></strong></p>.<p>Celebrations for the inauguration were held in the family's ancestral village, Thulasendrapuram, in Tamil Nadu state, with firecrackers set off and people clapping and cheering as Harris took the oath.</p>.<p>Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Harris, calling her swearing-in a "historic occasion".</p>.<p>Modi said he was "looking forward to interacting with her to make India-USA relations more robust. The India-USA partnership is beneficial for our planet."</p>.<p>Balachandran, a former academic, expressed doubt however that Harris's connections would be an advantage for India.</p>.<p>"They won't go out of the way to criticise India. What they won't do is give a carte blanche to India to do whatever it wants," he said.</p>