Following the Canada Tabernacle incident, Modi denounces violence.
In a growing political spat with Canada, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has denounced “destardly attempts to blackjack our diplomats.”
Last month the two countries expelled each other’s top envoys after Canadian officers indicted India of engaging in violent acts targeting Indian dissentients on Canadian soil, which the country has denied. After violence broke out at a Hindu tabernacle in the Canadian megacity of Brampton on Sunday in what he described as a “deliberate attack,” Modi offered his thoughts. Similar violent incidents will not lessen India’s resolve. We anticipate the Canadian government to insure justice and uphold the rule of law,” he wrote on Twitter. Original police said three people had been arrested and charged so far for the incident in Brampton, near Toronto, but did n’t give farther details.
The force said its officers were” laboriously probing several cases of illegal conditioning”. Unconfirmed vids posted online showed people carrying unheroic flags of the Khalistan movement which seeks a separate Sikh motherland in India- colliding with others holding Indian flags. India’s foreign ministry said” crazies and secessionists” were behind the violence, calling on the Canadian government to” insure that all places of deification are defended from similar attacks”. Meanwhile, North America- grounded activist group Sikhs for Justice described the incident as an” unprovoked violent attack on peacefulpro-Khalistan protesters”. Justin Trudeau wrote on Twitter that Sunday’s violence was” inferior”, adding that” every Canadian has the right to exercise their religion freely and safely”. Relations between India and Canada have deteriorated since Ottawa indicted the Indian government of being behind the 2023 payoff of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a naturalised Canadian citizen who has been labelled a terrorist in India.
India has explosively denied this and other allegations and says Canada has handed no substantiation to support its claims. Mr Nijjar has been a oral supporter of the Khalistan movement and has also intimately campaigned for it. Concerns have been raised regarding how the rift between Canada and India will affect the two nations’ close immigration and trade relations. Bilateral trade is worth billions of bones
and about 1.7 million people of Indian origin live in Canada. Neither of the two countries has yet assessed tariffs or other profitable forms of retribution, but experts advise that could change and the cooling relationship between India and Canada could hinder farther profitable growth.
