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Nikki Haley mourns father’s death on Father’s Day: ‘I had to say goodbye’

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley announced Sunday that her father, Ajit Singh Randhawa, died, saying she said goodbye to him on Father’s Day morning. “This morning I had to say goodbye to the smartest, sweetest, kindest, most decent man I have ever known,” Haley wrote in a statement on X. She said her “heart […]

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley announced Sunday that her father, Ajit Singh Randhawa, died, saying she said goodbye to him on Father’s Day morning.

“This morning I had to say goodbye to the smartest, sweetest, kindest, most decent man I have ever known,” Haley wrote in a statement on X.

She said her “heart is heavy knowing he is gone.”


Haley, a former Republican presidential candidate, did not provide further details of Randhawa’s death. A spokesperson for her campaign did not respond to a request for comment.

Haley was briefly diverted from the campaign trail in January to tend to her father, who had cancer and had just been hospitalized, according to multiple reports at the time.

Haley said Sunday that Randhawa, a retired professor who emigrated from India to Canada and then later to the United States, was married for 64 years. He was a father of four, a grandfather, and a great-grandfather.

UN Ambassador-designate Gov. Nikki Haley, accompanied by her family, from left, Nalin Haley, husband Michael Haley and father Dr. Ajit Singh Randhawa, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017, at her confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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Haley is presently working at the Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank. She ended her presidential bid in March.

On Sunday, Haley sent out an email through the political action committee she founded in which she honored her father, as well as her husband, who is in the South Carolina Army National Guard.

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