When Joe spoke about five Bidens living in Mumbai
4 years, 1 month ago

When Joe spoke about five Bidens living in Mumbai

Live Mint  

Mumbai: When US President-elect Joe Biden was in India's financial capital in 2013, he had told an audience that his distant relatives live in Mumbai. Biden reiterated his claim two years later at an event in Washington, saying there are five Bidens living in Mumbai. Decades after he received a letter from someone by the last name of Biden from Mumbai, soon after becoming a senator, Biden learned that his "great, great, great, great, great grandfather" had worked in the East India Company. "There are five Bidens in Mumbai, India," Biden, then Vice President, told a Washington audience in 2015 at an event organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of India-US civil nuclear deal. In 2013, when Biden travelled to Mumbai on his maiden vice presidential trip to India, he spoke about this letter he received when he became the senator for the first time several decades ago.

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When Joe Biden spoke of distant relatives living in Mumbai
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When Joe Biden spoke of distant relatives living in Mumbai

The Hindu  

Mumbai When US President-elect Joe Biden was in India’s financial capital in 2013, he had told an audience that his distant relatives live in Mumbai. Decades after he received a letter from someone by the last name of Biden from Mumbai, soon after becoming a senator, Mr Biden learned that his “great, great, great, great, great grandfather” had worked in …

When Joe Biden spoke of distant relatives living in Mumbai
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India Today  

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