U.S. President Barack Obama has canceled a visit to The Golden Temple in Amritsar because of a dispute over helmet may be premature, the White House said on Wednesday. We pick sites on foreign trips based on what the president needs to accomplish,” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters traveling on Air Force One. Obama had been expected to visit the Golden Temple in northern India, a pilgrimage site for Sikhs, during his tour of the country next month. But Indian media reports said Obama’s handlers balked at the idea of the U.S. president wearing a headscarf or skullcap while touring the site.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is a Sikh. Gibbs said Obama’s final journey during his India trip had yet to be finalized, but he expected it would be in the course of the next week.“It’s a big country and we’d love to spend a lot more than the three allotted days we have in India,”
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