In 2013, Joe Biden told his story of the “ Biden of Mumbai ”.
Bombay:
When US President-elect Joe Biden was in India’s financial capital in 2013, he told an audience his distant relatives lived in Mumbai.
Mr Biden reiterated his request two years later at an event in Washington, claiming that five Bidens lived in Mumbai.
As the 77-year-old Democrat prepares to be sworn in as the 46th U.S. president in just over two months, no one in Mumbai has so far shown up to claim he was Mr. Biden.
Decades after receiving a letter from someone with the last name Biden of Mumbai, shortly after becoming a senator, Joe Biden learned that his “great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather” had worked in the East India Company.
“There are five Bidens in Mumbai, India,” Mr. Biden, then vice president, told a Washington audience in 2015 at an event hosted by the Confederation of Indian Industry and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace on the occasion of India’s 10th anniversary. US civil nuclear deal.
In 2013, when Mr Biden visited Mumbai on his first vice-presidential trip to India, he spoke about this letter he received when he first became a senator decades ago. .
In his speech at the Bombay Stock Exchange on July 24, 2013, Joe Biden told his story of the “ Biden of Mumbai ”.
“It is an honor to be back in India and to be here in Mumbai. Out of the script for a second here, I remembered that I was elected to the United States Senate when I was a 29 year old kid in 1972, and one of the first letters I received and I regret to never have acted on it.
“Maybe a genealogist in the public can follow me, but I got a letter from a man named Biden – Biden, my name – from Mumbai, claiming that we were being reissued,” Joe Biden said. to the public in Mumbai seven years ago.
In his 2015 speech in Washington, the president-elect claimed that his “great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather” George Biden was a captain at East India Trading and after his retirement he decided to settle in India and marry an Indian woman.
Mr Biden also said someone provided him with the details, including the phone numbers of the Bidens in Mumbai.
He had informed the public that he had not yet called his relatives in Mumbai but was planning to do so.
It is not known if Joe Biden managed to contact them as the five Bidens he spoke of have not yet “ surfaced ”.
