As millions of Americans gear up to cast ballots in U.S. elections, Kamala Harris has people rooting for her from thousands of miles away in a tiny south Indian village.

D-Day is here as the US electors cast their votes to choose the next president. Thulasendrapuram, a tiny village in India’s Tamil Nadu, is rooting for Democratic candidate Kamala Harris’ win. Images display the villagers gathering at a temple for special prayers,

The 34-year-old M Umadevi, a member of the village council, said she related to Harris as a fellow woman politician.

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.

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,

The small village of Thulasendrapuram in southern India, where Vice President Kamala Harris' maternal grandfather was born, held a prayer ceremony on Election Day for her victory.

Villagers in Kamala Harris's ancestral village of Thulasendrapuram in Tamil Nadu, India, took part prayers for the Democratic presidential nominee on Tuesday.