Nikki Haley to pray at Golden Temple in Amritsar today

November 15, 2014 09:24

Nikki Haley, the first Indian-American governor of South Carolina state in the US, will on Saturday at the Harmandar Sahib, popularly known as Golden Temple, the holiest of all Sikh shrines.

She will also visit Jallianwala Bagh ground and Guru Nanak Dev University today.

Haley arrived in this Sikh holy city last evening.

Her father Ajit Singh Randhawa is a Sikh.

Haley, whose father's family used to live in Amritsar's Verka suburb till the early 60s before migrating to the US, is visiting her family's home state in nearly four decades.

Born in 1972, Nikki last came to Amritsar, 250 km from Chandigarh, as a two-year-old.

Relatives of Nikki Haley, who was Nimrata Randhawa before her marriage, celebrated in Verka when she became the South Carolina governor for the first time in November 2010.

Haley was re-elected governor of South Carolina recently.

Haley is on a 10-day trip to India during which she will visit New Delhi, Mumbai, Chandigarh and Amritsar to seek investment in her state.

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