Indian Foreign Minister Subramaniam Jaishankar says his country is ready to review the information if Canada provides “relevant” information on the killing of separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nagar.
Hardeep Singh Nagar was targeted and killed in Canada in June this year and the Canadian Prime Minister recently announced in the House of Commons that he is concerned that the killing of Canadian citizen Hardeep Singh Nagar from the Indian state of Punjab. I have a possible role for the Indian government.
After this, Canada also ordered an Indian diplomat to leave the country.
India has dismissed the allegation as baseless and has responded by not only expelling a Canadian diplomat but also suspending visa services for Canadian citizens.
It should be noted that India considers Hardeep Singh a fugitive terrorist who was sheltered by Canada, while Canada sees his activities in the country as freedom of expression and ‘rule of law’.
In a program of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, when asked about the allegations regarding the killing of a Sikh leader, the Indian foreign minister said that “India has told Canada that it has no role in this incident.”
He said, “We have told the Canadians that firstly, this (extrajudicial killings) is not the policy of the Indian government and secondly, if you have any relevant and specific information, let us know so that we can look into it.” are ready.’
Jaishankar also said that Canada has witnessed several incidents of organized crime related to separatist forces.
He said that a picture is not complete without context. You also have to see that in the last few years in Canada there has been a lot of organized crime related to separatist forces, violence, extremism.
He also said that we have repeatedly asked Canada to take action against supporters of Khalistan. We have also provided a lot of information on organized crime from Canadian soil.
“Our concern is that for political reasons the environment in Canada has been quite conducive for separatist activities and Indian politics has been interfered in the name of democracy,” the Indian foreign minister said.
In the Indian state of Punjab, about 58 percent are Sikhs and 39 percent are Hindus. A violent Khalistan separatist movement rocked India in the 1980s and early 1990s, killing thousands.
In India, that movement has now apparently died out, but most of its supporters are mainly Punjabis living abroad, and there is a good number of them in Canada.