Former U.N. ambassador and GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley announced on social media Sunday that her father died on Father’s Day,
“This morning I had to say goodbye to the smartest, sweetest, kindest, most decent man I have ever known,” Haley posted on X. “He taught his kids the importance of faith, hard work, and grace.”
In her 2012 memoir “Can’t Is Not an Option,” Haley wrote about growing up in a small town in South Carolina, the daughter of proud Sikh parents, saying her father, Ajit Singh Randhawa, kept his long hair and turban despite people whispering and pointing. It was something she said caused a “quiet anger” in her as a child.
Haley said her parents’ marriage was arranged and that when her father came to Canada to work, he had $8 in his pocket. He was a biologist and earned a doctorate at the University of British Columbia in …