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Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley announced on Sunday that her ailing father had passed away earlier in the day. “This morning I had to say goodbye to the smartest, sweetest, kindest, most decent man I have ever known,” Mrs.

Haley said in a post on social media platform X. Her tribute was accompanied by a photo of her embracing her late father, Ajit Singh Randhawa. “My heart is heavy knowing he is gone.



He taught his kids the importance of faith, hard work, and grace,” she said. “He was an amazing husband of 64 years, a loving grandfather and great grandfather, and the best father to his four children. He was such a blessing to all of us.

Happy Father’s Day Dad. We will miss you dearly.” She did not disclose his age.

Mr. Randhawa and his wife, both devout Sikhs, immigrated from the Punjab region of India to Canada and then to rural South Carolina in 1969, after Mr. Randhawa received a PhD from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

Mr. Randhawa would go on to become a professor of biology at the historically black Voorhees College in Denmark, South Carolina. Mrs.

Haley’s mother, Raj Kaur Randhawa, was a teacher who later became a successful businesswoman with her own fashion boutique. The couple had four children. Mrs.

Haley was born in Bamberg, South Carolina, on Jan. 20, 1972. In a speech at the 2020 Republican National Convention, Mrs.

Haley said she was the proud daughter of Indian immigrants. She said her parents “came to America and sett.

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