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<\/p>\n\u2018I sound strong because that\u2019s how my Sikh parents raised me\u2019 Says NIKKI Haley
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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\u2019s all I have ever shown, try to be. NIKKI HALEY, US ambassador to the UN<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
UNITED NATIONS: : A Punjabi may be out of Punjab, but Punjab is never out of her.<\/p>\n
Nikki Haley, the outspoken US ambassador to the UN, says if she comes out sounding strong, it\u2019s because that\u2019s how she was raised by her parents, who are Sikhs from Punjab.<\/p>\n
\u201cI do my 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,\u201d she said at a news conference on Monday.<\/p>\n
Her father, Ajit Singh Randhwa, who is from Amritsar district, had been a professor at the Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, and her mother, Raj Kaur Randhwa, had completed her law degree from the University of Delhi.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Just over two months into her office as the first IndianAmerican 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.<\/p>\n
She has called the UN Human Rights Council \u201ccorrupt\u201d, the UN of being a partner of a \u201ccorrupt\u201d government, and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad a \u201cwar criminal\u201d, and declared she was free to \u201cbeat up on Russia\u201d.<\/p>\n
And she perceives her job as shaking up the UN and pulling it by its purse strings, kicking and screaming, to carry out reforms.<\/p>\n
A TV reporter addressed her as \u201cMadam President\u201d because she presides over the Security Council this month, and quipped that\u2019s what she may be called in eight years \u2014 a hint that she may become the nation\u2019s President.<\/p>\n
Haley said that in every job she has held \u201cpeople assumed I was looking for something bigger\u201d.<\/p>\n
But, she said, \u201cIn 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\u2019s all I have ever shown, try to be.\u201d<\/p>\n
Haley has emerged as the face of American diplomacy with her outspokenness and availability to the public and the media \u2014 she was on three Sunday morning TV talk shows speaking out on US foreign policy, in addition to a speech at the Council on Foreign relations.<\/p>\n
Unlike most of President Donald Trump\u2019s cabinet and top officials, she has a warm relationship with the otherwise belligerent media.<\/p>\n
In contrast, secretary of state Rex Tillerson has kept away from the media and minimised public appearances. Even his spokesperson, Mark Toner, is a holdover from President Barack Obama\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n
This makes Haley the only accessible authentic voice of Trump foreign policy, raising her public profile.<\/p>\n
That in turn has led to media speculation in recent days that she is likely to succeed Tillerson.<\/p>\n
Answering a question if she was offered the job of secretary of state, Haley said that Trump did not make the offer when she met him at the Trump Tower barely two weeks after the election in November. But she said: \u201cThe original call that I got to go to Trump Tower was to discuss Secretary of State.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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