US President-Elect Joe Biden & His India Connection

Washington: US President-elect Joe Biden became the first Democratic candidate to win the state of Georgia since 1992 on Saturday and this solidified his victory as he now has a total of 306 votes in the electoral college, the BBC reported.

However, what is making news now is his posiible connection with India. During a trip to Mumbai in 2013, Biden had referred to a letter that he had received from an Indian Biden after becoming a senator in 1972. “One of the first letters I received and I regret I never followed up on it. The letter said their mutual, great, great, great, something or other worked for the East India Trading Company back in the 1700s,” he said, suggesting they could be related.

The report in The Print further said that a Biden family in Mumbai is flooded with calls since their namesake staked his claim to the White House.

According to media reports, their late grandfather Leslie could have written the letter to the US politician.

Meanwhile in Chennai, people are crowding the plaque of Christopher Biden, who was born in 1789, at St George’s Cathedral, the online newspaper further said.

“We’ve come to know the records of two Bidens — William Biden and Christopher Biden — who were brothers and became captains of the East India Company on merchant ships in the 19th century,” the Bishop of Madras, Reverend J. George Stephen, told AFP.

However, there is no concrete evidence suggesting any links between the Biden brothers and the US President-elect.