India and Canada are locked in a battle of accusations that has led to a storm of diplomatic rows between the two countries over the killing of Khalistan terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar at a Sikh shrine in Surrey, British Columbia, in June of this year.
While Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has remained unmoved by his ‘credible allegations’ against India, accusing India of being involved in the killing of the Khalistan terrorist in June, India has time and again refuted and rubbished such claims .
Nijjar’s murder: Allied support for Prime Minister Trudeau
In an interview published by American media new york times, Prime Minister Trudeau has slammed his accusations, saying the killing of Canada’s Nijjar on “Canadian territory” is “absolutely unacceptable.”
When Prime Minister Trudeau was asked whether his allies supported him in his accusations against India, he said: “Every ally I have spoken to, bar none, has been unequivocal that these kinds of violations of a country’s sovereignty and the rule of law are absolutely unacceptable. I think people will wait patiently to see how things develop. But standing up for the rule of law is not something temporary. It’s a process that takes weeks and months.”
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Nijjar murder: what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wants?
In the interview published by New York TimesPrime Minister Trudeau has said the “most appropriate” solution to the killing of Khalistan terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar would be “a bunch of people thrown in jail, convicted. A series of lessons learned and changes in the way the Indian government and intelligence agencies operate.”
India and Canada are feuding over Nijjar’s murder
Prime Minister Trudeau said at a press conference on Friday: “Canada has shared with India the credible allegations I spoke about on Monday. We did that many weeks ago. We hope that they will talk to us so that we can get to the bottom of this very serious matter. That’s important,” amid a spiraling deterioration in the relationship between Modi and Trudeau.
Meanwhile, the United States seems to have found itself in a dilemma as experts suggest that Joe Biden is likely to prefer India over Canada, if a situation arises, while others suggest that the US would back the American bastion in this predicament .
India has maintained over the years that Canada, among others, has been deliberately silent on claims of Khalistan terrorism in their country. The tension with Canada increased and surfaced after Prime Minister Trudeau claimed there could be a “potential” involvement of Indian agents in the killing of Khalistani extremist Nijjar on his country’s territory on June 18 in British Columbia.
India had classified Nijjar as a terrorist in 2020.
India angrily dismissed the charges as “absurd” and “motivated” and expelled a senior Canadian diplomat from the country in an attempt to have Ottawa expel an Indian official over the case.
Strikingly, Prime Minister Trudeau’s accusations came just days after he returned from Delhi, India, after attending the Group of 20 (G20) summit. The allegation over the killing of Khalistan terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar also came after US President Joe Biden spent much of the past few months courting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in a bid to bring him closer to the US job, in an attempt to further his geopolitical interests. matches with Russia and China.
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Updated: Sep 23, 2023 8:58 PM IST
