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India protests against Justin Trudeau attending 'Khalistan event'
May 12, 2017
The Indian Government has lodged a strong protest with Canada over the
presence of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at a Khalistan event in
Toronto, where separatist elements were felicitated.
"We have
taken up such issues in the past with the government of Canada, and in
this particular instance, without getting into details, I can tell you
the practice has not been discontinued," said Ministry of External
Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Gopal Baglay.
Two legislators, who had
authored a motion in the Ontario assembly terming the 1984 anti-Sikh
riots "Genocide", were felicitated at the Khalistan event.
On
April 30, Trudeau addressed a parade for 'Khalsa Day', which included
floats glorifying Sikh militant leaders Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale,
Amreek Singh and former General Shahbeg Singh who were killed in the
siege of the Golden Temple and Operation Bluestar in June 1984.
The
procession, organised by the Ontario Sikhs and Gurdwara Council, also
felicitated the legislator from Trudeau's Liberal Party, Harinder Kaur
Malhi who had moved a resolution on "genocide" against India for the
anti-Sikh riots of November 1984, that was passed by the Ontario
Assembly on April 6 this year.
India has been raising the issue
of emerging anti-India elements in Canada calling it a "misguided motion
based on a limited understanding of India, its constitution, society,
ethos, rule of law and its judicial process,", with the government
expressing its unhappiness both with the High Commission in Delhi, and
with the Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan when he met with Defence
Minister Arun Jaitley in Delhi on April 18.
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