In Tamil Nadu, special prayers were performed on Tuesday at a temple in the ancestral village of the Democratic presidential candidate of the United States Kamala Harris ahead of the presidential elections.

Priests perform a ritual for the Democratic presidential nominee, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris' success in the upcoming American elections inside a temple in Thulasendrapuram, the village where Harris' maternal grandfather was born,

Residents pray for a Kamala Harris election victory in her grandfather's village:: Thulasendrapuram, India::The temple ceremony in Thulasendrapuram, in the state of Tamil Nadu, was organized by local villagers and attended by more than a dozen of them and a few tourists.

Kamala Harris' maternal grandfather, PV Gopalan, was born over a century ago in the village of Thulasendrapuram in Tamil Nadu.