'They put PM Modi in grandfather category': Usha Vance on her kids' first visit to India

Usha Vance

US Second Lady Usha Vance recalled her visit to India and said that her children put PM Modi in the grandfather category. She said they love him and were hugging him when they visited his residence during their visit to India.

She called her meeting with PM Modi "very special" and that it was a "trip of lifetime" for her children.

"It really was the trip of a lifetime for us. My children had never been to India, what with the pandemic and, JD's entry into politics and all that. And so they'd grown up just knowing so much about this country, the stories. food, the relationships with grandparents and friends, but they had never actually seen it. So it was just sort of mind-blowing from their perspective. And then for me and JD, I think it just could not have been any more special. We had the opportunity to see some of the greatest sites in North India. We're looking forward to our next trip and trying to get to the parts of the country where my family is from as well. And it just was sort of one hit after another, right. The most incredible food, the peacocks that we got to see, everywhere we went, getting to see the Taj Mahal in the morning and appreciate it as the sun was just sort of coming up and the cool skies and blue skies over in the background," She said in a conversation at the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum in Washington, DC, when asked about her India visit.

Additionally, Vance recalled how her kids had met PM Modi in Paris, and he had given her five-year-old son a birthday present that day. She said PM Modi was very kind and generous to the kids, and the talks between PM Modi and US Vice President JD Vance were "productive." She also spoke about seeing a puppet show in India, which included bits from Ramayana.