Washington: Diwali greeting as millions celebrated the festival of lights across the world, the US President-elect Joe Biden tweeted in his twitter on Saturday.

“To the millions of Hindus, Jains, Sikhs, and Buddhists celebrating the Festival of Lights, @DrBiden and I send our best wishes for#HappyDiwali. May your new year be filled with hope, happiness, and prosperity? Sal Mubarak (sic),” Joe Biden wrote on Twitter. The 77-year-old is set to become the oldest president in the history of the country.

Kamala Harris newly elected Vice- President, having Indian origin also tweeted Diwali greetings on Saturday night. “Happy Diwali and Sal Mubarak! @DouglasEmhoff and I wish everyone celebrating around the world a safe, healthy, and joyous new year,” she wrote. To the millions of Hindus, Jains, Sikhs, and Buddhists celebrating the Festival of Lights, @DrBiden and I send our best wishes for a #HappyDiwali. May your new year be filled with hope, happiness, and prosperity? Sal Mubarak.

Kamala Harris in her first address to the nation as Vice- President elect, in an emotional victory speech last week, she remembered her mother, who was from India. “I’m grateful to the woman most responsible for my presence here today, my mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris. When she came here from India at the age of 19, she maybe didn’t imagine this moment. But she believed so deeply in America where moment like this is possible”.

“I am thinking about her and generations of women, black women, Asian, White, Latina, Native American women who throughout our nation’s history have paved the way for this moment tonight,” the 57-year-old said to loud cheering at an outdoor rally in Joe Biden’s home city of Wilmington, Delaware, stressing that “I may be the first woman in the office, but I won’t be the last.”

Even as Donald Trump refuses to concede the election, Joe Biden has begun the process of transition to the White House. Covid- 19 and economic revival have been listed as his top priorities.