THULASENDRAPURAM, India (AP) — The temple reverberated with rhythmic Sanskrit and Tamil hymns, as a Hindu priest held a flame before the god. As this tiny South Indian village gathered to pray for Kamala Harris, a gaggle of reporters jostled for space and camera angles.

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

Thulasendrapuram village in Tamil Nadu eagerly prays for Kamala Harris to win the U.S. presidential elections.

Residents in U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris' ancestral village in southern India were preparing to hold prayers on election day on Tuesday in a Hindu temple more than 8,000 miles (13,

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.

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.