Indian-origin Republican leader Vivek Ramaswamy was viciously trolled as he made a long anniversary post for wife Dr Apoorva taking a journey down memory lane about how they met each other, proposed and got married. “Apoorva, is that an American name?” one angry comment read. “You’re both going back to India,” another wrote. “Who’s falling for this tour of let’s pretend to be American?” a third user commented. “When is your dad getting deported?” read one of the top comments.“In the fall of 2011, I met a brilliant medical student named Apoorva & asked her out on a first date – to head west for a weekend & hike Flattop Mountain in the Rockies. She accepted. We got within striking distance of the summit when a blizzard hit. I was foolishly stubborn about still making it, when she grabbed my hand, looked me in the eye, & said we had a lifetime ahead to come back and finish it. 14 years & two kids later, we finally made it back to celebrate our 10-year wedding anniversary this weekend. Grateful for the love of my life & every day of our journey together,” Ramaswamy posted with two photos 14 years before and after. But the comment section turned into hatred-filled space for Ramaswamy because of his Indian origin. Vivek Ramaswamy was born in Cincinnati to Indian immigrants and the Ohio governor hopeful wears his Indian origin as a badge of honor despite the backlash. In 2023, he declared his campaign for the presidency though he later suspended it and supported Donald Trump. Ramaswamy’s father V Ganapathy Ramaswamy, a National Instuture of Technology Calicut graduate, worked as an engineer and a patent attorney at General Electric. His mother Geetha Ramaswamy, a graduate of Mysore Medical College & Research Institute, worked as a geriatric psychiatrist. Vivek once revealed that his mother became a US citizen after his birth but his father still has the Indian passport and he never took the US citizenship test.
