As the controversy round Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s weird claims pertaining to the killing of Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar and India’s befitting response has sparked debates, a vicious narrative is being pushed that the menace of Khalistani extremism began to pressure India-Canada relations from 2015 onwards whereas the Narendra Modi-led authorities held the reins of energy on the middle and BJP-Akali Dal alliance in Punjab.
Former Ambassador KC Singh throughout an IndiaAt the moment present hosted by Rajdeep Sardesai on September nineteenth stated that since 2015 the BJP ally Akali Dal is answerable for creating the sensation that Sikhs are being persecuted. Singh additional asserted that it was Union authorities representatives who referred to as the contributors of the Farmer’s protest “Khalistanis”. Singh blamed the Indian authorities, claiming that following Operation Blue Star, the Khalistan menace had settled and it solely resurfaced following the 2015 desecration incident. The former diplomat insinuated that it’s pointless on the a part of the Indian authorities responsible Canada’s Trudeau authorities for its step in opposition to India.
As reported earlier, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau forward of the G20 summit in New Delhi was making determined makes an attempt to garner help from the nation’s western allies for its baseless anti-India allegations. Trudeau’s makes an attempt to nook the Modi authorities fell flat because the Indian authorities didn’t give any alternative to the Canadian PM to push his vicious narratives in opposition to India throughout the G20 summit in New Delhi. PM Modi didn’t maintain any bilateral talks with the Canadian PM, reasonably the 2 leaders had a pull-aside assembly whereby PM Modi expressed sturdy concern over Khalistani extremism in Canada.
Interestingly, whereas the narrative is being pushed claiming the upsurge of Khalistan parts in Canada and the Indian authorities’s perusal of the problem with Canada is a ‘recent, Modi regime’ phenomenon, historical past suggests in any other case. Back in 2010, the then Prime Minister Dr. Mammohan Singh had warned his Canadian counterpart Stephan Harper over the rising help amongst Canadian Sikhs for Khalistani parts lively in Punjab.
PM Singh met PM Harper on the sidelines of the G20 summit and expressed India’s objection with regard to Canada permitting the Khalistani ‘movement’ to thrive.
Two years later, the Indian authorities as soon as once more warned Canada’s ruling dispensation led by the Conservative Party of Canada which now sits within the opposition in opposition to the problem of Khalistani extremism in Canada. The then Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Preneet Kaur had instructed PM Harper throughout his six-day go to to India that the “revival of anti-India rhetoric in Canada” has turn into a significant concern for India.
A CBC News report means that Minister Kaur’s feedback got here after a number of Khalistani flags and seals at parades and temples had been seen in British Columbia again then. While the then-Canadian Prime Minister stated that Canada helps a united India, he downplayed the Khalistani terrorism motion by calling it “marginal”.
Canada’s negligence in the direction of the rise of the Khalistan motion there and its torpid perspective in the direction of India’s warnings and issues over the anti-India actions on Canadian soil have persevered over time irrespective of which celebration was on the helm of energy there.
Pokharan nuclear check, Kanishka bombing and Canada’s surging hostility in the direction of India
On May 18, 1974, India achieved a historic feat because it performed a profitable nuclear bomb check in Rajasthan’s Pokharan. However, Pierre Trudeau, the then Prime Minister of Canada and father of current Canadian PM Justin Trudeau accused India of misusing the Canada-made CANDU reactors for its nuclear bomb.
Since then, Pierre Trudeau turned hostile in the direction of India. This coincided with the rise of Khalistani extremism in Canada with the inflow of Khalistani parts into the nation in search of refuge. Pierre Trudeau had refused the extradition request of Khalistani terrorist Talwinder Singh Parmar in 1982. In that yr, the Indian authorities underneath then-PM Indira Gandhi had sought the extradition of Parmar, who was accused of killing law enforcement officials. However, the Pierre Trudeau-led authorities declined the request citing a weird purpose that India, though a member of the Commonwealth didn’t recognise the British queen as its Head of State.
Notably, Babbar Khalsa, the Khalistani terrorist group, was led by Talwinder Parmar. In 1985, the group attacked an Air India airplane named Kanishka in mid-air off the coast of Ireland whereas it was flying from Montreal to London. In whole, 329 individuals had been killed within the incident, with 268 of them being Canadian nationals.
The horrendous bombing transpired after the Pierre Trudeau authorities shielded Talwinder Parmar by rejecting India’s request to extradite the Khalistani terrorist. Ironically, Parmar was by no means convicted. The Khalistani terrorist was killed by Punjab Police in 1992 in an encounter.
Parmar was allowed to thrive in Canada and perform his planning and execution of the bombing underneath the nostril of Canadian intelligence and regulation enforcement officers. Police officers had been conscious that he was planning an assault. However the RCMP and CSIS ignored the intel.
In 2010, Justice John Major-led fee of inquiry gave a report by which Canadian police and spy companies had been blamed for grave negligence and hampering the investigation. In the report, Justice Major stated that the authorities ought to have recognized that the Indian plane was a terrorist’s goal. He referred to as the failure of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and Canada’s spy company, Canadian Security and Intelligence Services (CSIS) to forestall the bombing “inexcusable”.
Former EAM SM Krishna had raised the problem, acknowledged that regardless of intelligence, Canada failed to forestall the Kanishka assault
Canada’s failure in stopping the Kanishka Bombing by the Khalistani terrorists is obvious from the response by the then Minister of External Affairs SM Krishna to MP Sobhana Bhartia again in 2010 whereby the minister disclosed that the Canadian intelligence companies had essential info pertaining to the opportunity of a bomb assault on an Air India flight. Minister Krishna added that the Canadian authorities companies “failed to appreciate the nature and seriousness of the threat of Sikh extremism.”
The Canadian Commission of Enquiry’s investigation of the bombing of Air India-182 discovered that Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) surveillance was “ineffective”. The minister acknowledged citing the Enquiry Commission findings that regardless of understanding concerning the threat of sabotage, Transport Canada and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Protective Policing exhibited a scarcity of flexibility by persevering with to depend on anti-hijacking safety measures that didn’t deal with the specter of bombing. In phrases of airport safety, there was a scarcity of coordination and communication throughout the RCMP in addition to between the RCMP, Transport Canada, and airways.
In April 2010, Liberal Party chief and MP, Ujjal Dosanjh additionally warned in opposition to the rising “Sikh extremism” within the nation saying that “it is getting worse”.
“It’s more entrenched, it’s more sophisticated and sometimes it’s double-faced,” Dosanjh stated again then. He added that second and third-generation youths are being poisoned. Dosanjh stated that the “militancy” rising among the many Khalistan parts is worse than what it was a technology in the past on the time of the Air India flight bombing.
Canada continues to protect Khalistanis
Over the years governments modified in Canada, from Conservative Party to the ruling Liberal Party, the governments there have did not crush the Khalistani parts within the nation regardless of repeated warnings from the Indian governments. With time and assets, generally lively patronage from the political leaders, the Khalistanis have become a major vote financial institution for the Liberal Party. PM Trudeau has been hell-bent on defending the Khalistani terrorists, and their anti-India actions together with the pointless referendums, attacking and defacing of Hindu temples in addition to forming an alliance with political events just like the New Democratic Party (NDP) which has been overtly backing Khalistani terrorists and their ‘demands’.
Under Justin Trudeau’s management, Indo-Canadian ties have been strained owing the Trudeau’s deliberate incompetence in performing in opposition to Khalistani terrorists targetting Hindu temples, finishing up anti-India actions and even overtly threatening Indian diplomats. PM Trudeau’s customary response on this regard has been that his authorities helps “freedom of expression” and the fitting to protest even when it comes at the price of ruining relations with India.
The Freedom of Expression excuse is one other huge irony as a result of Trudeau’s personal authorities had ruthlessly clamped down on Canadian truckers protesting in opposition to stringent Covid mandates.
In his pursuit to please his pro-Khalistan vote-bank, Trudeau has chosen to alienate and antagonize a significant international financial system and commerce companion, all within the identify of ‘supporting’ a needed felony and terrorist who was repeatedly denied citizenship by the Canadian authorities.
