Sikh parents are behind my toughness: Haley
Wednesday, 05/04/2017
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United Nations: A Punjabi may be out of Punjab, but Punjab is never out of her. Nikki Haley, the outspoken US ambassador to UN, says if she comes out sounding strong, it’s because that’s how she was raised by her parents, who are Sikhs from Punjab.
She does her job to the best of my abilities and if that comes out blunt, comes out strong, I am one of two brothers and a sister and my parents raised us all to be strong,” she said at a news conference on Monday.
Her father Ajit Singh Randhwa, is from Amritsar district.
He is an agriculture science professor. Her mother is Raj Kaur Randhwa. One of her brothers, Mitti Randhwa, was an Army officer who saw action in Operation Desert Storm, 1990-91, leading a company tasked with finding chemical weapons.
Just over two months into her office as the first Indian American to be appointed to a cabinet-level position, she has made waves by calling a spade a spade, if not a shovel, in an arena where a diplomat may delicately call it a spoon.
Haley said that in every job she has held “people assumed I was looking for something bigger”. But, she added, “In reality, I am the daughter of Indian parents who said to me whatever you do be great at it and make sure people remember you for it. That’s all I have ever shown, try to be.”
