U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris has falsely claimed that her grandfather was a freedom fighter in the Indian independence movement.
The Democratic presidential nominee shared on Sept. 8 a picture of herself in India with her maternal grandfather P.V. Gopalan. She described him as a “retired civil servant who had been part of the movement to win India’s independence.” Gopalan’s daughter Shyamala is the mother of the incumbent vice president.
Harris has previously described Gopalan, a Tamil from the elite Brahmin caste, as “one of the original independence fighters in India.” Gopalan purportedly was among the many who pushed back against British rule, which ended in 1946 shortly after the conclusion of World War II.
But news reports in India, quoting official records, have disproved the vice president’s claims. In one instance, the Times of India pointed out that Gopalan – born in 1911 – was a diligent civil servant. Harris’ uncle and Gopalan’s son G. Balachandran even told the outlet that he would have been fired if his father openly advocated ending British rule.
The U.S. vice president also received a strong rebuke on social media. The official X account of the Hindu People’s Party wrote that Gopalan worked in the British Imperial Secretariat Service in the 1930s, “a role off-limits to anyone tied to the struggle against British rule.” It added that “if anything, he aided colonial exploitation by serving the imperial bureaucracy.”
Defense analyst Abhijit Iyer-Mitra meanwhile decried Harris as a “liar” for parroting false claims about her grandfather. He continued: “How could a serving bureaucrat be part of the [Indian] independence movement opposing the same government and violating service rules?” […]
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