US vice chairman Kamala Harris visited her maternal grandfather P V Gopalan’s household home in Zambia’s capital Lusaka the place he lived as an Indian Overseas Service official within the Sixties. Kamala Harris visited the home throughout her journey to Zambia.

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“My go to to Zambia has a particular significance for me, as a lot of you recognize, and for my household. As you recognize, I visited Zambia, Mr President, as a younger woman when my grandfather labored right here,” Kamala Harris stated.

“In 1966, shortly after Zambia’s independence, he got here to Lusaka to function a director of aid measures and refugees. That was his title. He served as an advisor to Zambia’s first president, Kenneth Kaunda. And he was an professional on refugee resettlement,” she added.

P V Gopalan was born in Chennai in 1911 and served an advisor to first President of Zambia Kenneth Kaunda and as Joint Secretary to the Authorities of India within the Sixties. In Lusaka, P V Gopalan lived at 16 Independence Avenue within the Sixties.

“I bear in mind my time right here fondly. I used to be a baby, so it’s the reminiscence of a kid. However I bear in mind being right here and simply the way it felt, the heat and the thrill that was current,” Kamala Harris stated.

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“So, from my household and from all of us, we prolong our greetings and hi there to everybody right here,” the US vice chairman added.

P V Gopalan was deputed to the federal government of Zambia because the Director of Reduction Measures and Refugees in January 1966 by the Indian authorities for whcih he gave up his function as the pinnacle of the workplace of the joint secretary within the Ministry of Rehabilitation.