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| Proud daughter of Indian immigrants |
| Proud daughter of Indian immigrants: Nikki Haley
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 13-January-2011
3:24:33 AM |
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Daughter of Sikh immigrant parents from Punjab, Indian-American Namrata "Nikki" Randhawa Haley proudly recollected her Indian heritage while being sworn in as the first woman and non-white Governor of South Carolina.
"I stand before you today, the proud daughter of Indian immigrants," Haley said in her inaugural speech on the State House's south steps on Wednesday.
Top several Republican leaders including Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, a number of Congressmen and a large number of Indian Americans from various parts of the country, and the Indian Ambassador to the US, Meera Shankar, braved some frigid weather to be present during the historic occasion.
"Growing up in rural, small town South Carolina, my family experienced this state and this country at its best. No, not every day was perfect. No, we were not always free from the burdens faced by those who look and sound different," said Haley who after Bobby Jindal from Louisiana, is only the second Indian-American Governor
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