Vance Visits India: Spotlight on Usha Vance’s India Connection

Vance Visits India: On Monday, US Vice President J.D. Vance and his Indian-origin wife Usha embarked on a four-day trip to India, where they will meet with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. During their tour, Vance and his family will visit Delhi as well as Jaipur and Agra.

Four-Day Plan:

Vance and his family plan to visit the Swaminarayan Akshardham temple in the Capital later today. They might also stop by a shopping center known for handcrafted traditional goods. On Monday night, they will travel to Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan, where they’ll stay at the Rambagh Palace—once a royal guesthouse, now an opulent hotel.

On Tuesday, the family intends to explore several historical sites, including the UNESCO-listed Amer Fort. Later that afternoon, Vance will deliver a speech at an event at the Rajasthan International Centre in Jaipur. On Wednesday morning, the U.S. Vice President and his family will visit the iconic Taj Mahal in Agra.

5 Things to Know about Usha Vance:
1. Usha Vance may trace her ancestry back to the Andhra Pradesh village of Vadluru. Her parents, who were Indian immigrants who came to the US in the 1980s, gave birth to her there.
2. Usha Vance was raised in an upper-middle-class household after being born in San Diego to Chilukuri Radhakrishna and Lakshmi. The Hindu family has a strong religious conviction.
3. Usha Vance’s mother works as a molecular biologist, while her father is a mechanical engineer who attended IIT Madras.
4. While attending Yale Law School, Usha Vance met J.D. Vance, her future husband.
5. After getting married in 2014, the couple had three kids.

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Traffic Restriction Amid the Arrival:

As office-bound commuters negotiated peak-hour traffic on Monday morning, several major routes that connect Delhi with its neighboring cities like Noida and Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh, and Gurugram in Haryana were severely clogged. Road closures and detours put in place in the nation’s capital because of US Vice President JD Vance’s visit, causing a traffic jam.