Joe Biden will be sworn in as the 46th President of the United States today

- Washington DC has become like an impregnable castle

- Military provision for Trump supporters not to resort to violence

Washington Wednesday, January 20, 2021

Newly elected US President Joe Biden will be sworn in as the 46th President of the United States today. The ceremony will start at 10.30 pm Indian time.

Washington DC was given an impregnable fortress-like security to prevent the supporters of outgoing President Donald Trump from staging violent demonstrations on the occasion. Armed members of the National Guard were deployed at sensitive locations throughout the city.

Trump's supporters staged violence last fortnight in the Parliament House, Capitol Hill. Chief Justice John Roberts will swear in Joe Biden as president and Kamala Harris as vice president at 12 noon US time. Twenty-five thousand National Guard personnel were deployed at the Capitol's West Front, where the swearing-in ceremony is to take place.

Biden, 78, will take an oath with a copy of his family's 127-year-old Bible. At that time, his wife, Jill Biden, would respectfully hold the Bible in her hand. Biden has emerged as the oldest president in American history. After the swearing-in ceremony, Biden will deliver a short speech to the nation.

As previously announced, Donald Trump will not be attending the swearing-in ceremony. Vinay Reddy, an American citizen of Indian descent, was drafting Joe Biden's historic national discourse.

Kamala Harris (age 56) will be the first Bingori and the first South Asian woman to be sworn in as Vice President. Kamala will be sworn in by Supreme Court's first Latin woman Justice Sonia Sotomeyer. The same woman Justice swore in Joe Biden as vice president in 2013. Kamala Harris will hold two Bibles. One Bible belongs to M's family friend Regina Shelton and the other to Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American judge of the US Supreme Court.