#khalistani

Canadian citizen Hardeep Singh Nijjar was brazenly shot dead outside a Sikh temple in Surrey, B.C. on June 18. Nijjar, a supporter of a Sikh homeland in the form of an independent Khalistani state, had been branded by the Indian government as a "terrorist" and accused of leading a militant separatist group — something his supporters have denied. "Canadian security agencies have been actively pursuing credible allegations of a potential link between agents of the Government of India and the killing of a Canadian citizen, Hardeep Singh Nijjar," Trudeau said Monday in a speech to the House of Commons. "Any involvement of a foreign government in the killing of a Canadian citizen on Canadian soil is an unacceptable violation of our sovereignty."

Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan’s visit to his native India this week has run into controversy after one of the country’s political leaders accused him of being a Sikh nationalist.

Amarinder Singh, the top elected official in India’s Punjab province, where Sajjan was born, made the explosive accusation in an interview on Indian TV in advance of Sajjan’s trip.

In the interview, Singh expressed anger over not being allowed to speak at political rallies in Canada last year before calling Sajjan and the other Sikh members of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet “Khalistanis.”

“I’m not going to meet him,” Singh said. “There are five ministers who are Khalistanis and I am not interested in meeting any Khalistanis.”

The Khalistani movement is comprised of Sikhs who want to create an independent homeland and became synonymous with a wave of violence that swept across India in the 1980s.

Delhi News: खालिस्तान समर्थक आतंकवादी हरदीप सिंह निज्जर की हत्या को लेकर कनाडा लगातार झूठ बोल रहा है। पहले उसने बिना कोई सबूत दिए भारत पर निज्जर की हत्या करवाने का आरोप लगाया। इसके बाद जब भारतीय जांच एजेंसी एनआईए ने हाल ही में कनाडा से उसके मृत्यु प्रमाणपत्र की मांग की तो वह भी देने से इनकार कर दिया। आपको बता दें कि हरदीप सिंह निज्जर भारतीय मूल का कनाडाई नागरिक था। जून में उसकी हत्या कर दी गई।…