Chilukuri Santamma, paternal grandma of US Vice President-designate JD Vance's woman Usha Vance, speaks to the media aft the US Presidential predetermination result, successful Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024. (PTI Photo)
Following the triumph of Donald Trump and his vice statesmanlike campaigner JD Vance successful the 2024 US statesmanlike elections, determination is euphoria astatine Vadluru successful Andhra Pradesh, which is the ancestral colony of Vance’s wife, Usha Chilukuri Vance.
Vadluru is astir 3 km from the municipality Tanuku successful West Godavari district, wherever Usha’s household erstwhile lived. The villagers celebrated her husband’s triumph successful the US election.
“We conscionable celebrated Usha’s husband’s victory. We burst crackers and preceded this solemnisation with prayers for JD Vance’s triumph yesterday astatine the section Sai Baba temple,” P Srinivasa Raju (53), a erstwhile colony president, told PTI.
About 30 to 40 section villagers distributed sweets to observe Vance’s triumph and Usha’s links to the village, who is expected to go the 2nd woman of the United States.
Incidentally, the Sai Baba temple successful the colony was constructed connected a crippled donated by Usha’s family.
Further, Raju said that Vadluru colony was expected to payment successful immoderate mode from JD Vance’s wife.
According to Badri Narayana (67), a villager, Usha’s household would person lived successful the colony much than 70 years ago.
He noted that her gramps was a husbandman successful the colony but helium ne'er saw anybody from that family. However, helium said that Usha’s distant relatives, who bash not person immoderate links with the household now, proceed to unrecorded successful the village.
Vadluru archetypal came into the planetary limelight successful July, instantly aft Trump chose JD Vance arsenic his moving mate.
Usha is an accomplished lawyer educated astatine Yale University.
Meanwhile, C Shantamma, a 96-year-old-year Vizag-based physics prof and a distant comparative of 38-year-old Usha, who ne'er met oregon spoke to the second expressed happiness implicit JD Vance’s triumph successful the US polls.
“I americium blessed that she (Usha done hubby JD Vance) won. As they are our people, it is simply a spot much happier. Because they beryllium to our families, we are happy. I americium blessed aft coming to cognize astir our relationship,” Shantamma told PTI Videos.
The nonagenarian is related to Usha done her hubby C Subramanya Sastry. Subramanya Sastry’s oldest brother, C Rama Sastry, is Usha’s grandfather.
According to Santhamma, Usha’s parents, C Radhakrishna and Lakshmi, emigrated to the US astir 1980.
Though galore radical spell connected to go presidents and secretaries, Santhamma noted that the narration she shares with Usha done the Chilukuri surname makes this predetermination triumph sweeter.
Further, Santhamma added that she came to cognize of Usha’s husband’s triumph aft watching an predetermination video.
First uploaded on: 06-11-2024 astatine 22:36 IST