Mandya (Karnataka):The most awaited election result of America is in the process and at the same time, people in Hallegere village of Mandya are praying for Joe Biden to become the US President. The reason behind the prayers is a person named Dr Vivek H Murthy from Hallegere, who is the key strategist of Biden's election campaign.
Dr Vivek H Murthy, who was President Barack Obama's youngest surgeon general in 2014, is one of the key strategists of Biden's election campaign. He was born in London and brought up in the US. He did a BA from Harvard University. But his native land is India's Hallegere and he visits here once in a year. The villagers are also expressing their happiness for him because he has done much good work in the village to help the people.
Murthy remembers his motherland as well as his mother tongue. He speaks in Kannada and mingles with the people when he arrives in the village once a year. He makes annual trips and conducts free camps under his family-funded scope foundation in the village. A team of doctors, along with his family members, have conducted free eye camps and operated on 60 people in the past in his village. They also presented 100 computers to government schools in and around Maddur taluk. Although Vivek Murthy and his family had plans to donate computers to all schools in Mandya district.