If Biden's India connection, some relatives live in Nagpur

Nagpur, Ta. 11 November 2020, Wednesday

Biden's long-standing India connection to the new US president-elect has come to the fore.

Even if Biden's entire family lives in the US, some people in Nagpur have claimed that we are related to Biden and have lived in Nagpur since 1873. He also mentioned Biden when he visited India as Vice President in 2013. That is, some of my distant relatives live in Mumbai, the economic capital of India.

"I received a letter from India after I became a senator in 1972, telling me that my great-grandfather lived in India and worked for the East India Company," he said.

However, a family in Nagpur, not from Mumbai, claimed to be Biden's relatives. The letter was written to Biden by the same family at the time, and the family's surname is Biden. "My grandmother contacted Joe Biden in a letter dated April 15, 1981, and also discussed her genealogy in a letter to Joe Biden," Sonia Biden Francis, granddaughter of Leslie Biden, told a news agency.

Sonia's elder brother Ian Biden also lives in Nagpur and is a former officer in the Merchant Navy. Was believed.

Letter writer Leslie Biden died in Nagpur in 1983.