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Last Updated:November 04, 2024, 20:33 IST
Commenting on current Indo-Canadian ties, former Punjab CM Captain Amarinder Singh said for PM Justin Trudeau, electoral compulsions are more important than decades-old relationships
Former Punjab CM Captain Amarinder Singh aired his views on the current Indo-Canadian relationship crisis. (Image: PTI/File)
It looks like, for Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, electoral compulsions are more important than decades-old relationships, said former Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Monday. He aired his views on the current Indo-Canadian relationship crisis amid an alleged Khalistani attack on a Hindu temple in Canada’s Brampton.
His statement came soon after India condemned the acts of violence, which it said were perpetrated by extremists and separatists at the Hindu Sabha Temple in Brampton. The ministry of external affairs (MEA) said it expects that those indulging in such violence “will be prosecuted".
Amarinder Singh, who resigned from the post of the CM of Punjab under pressure from top Congress leadership in 2021, said Trudeau’s Canada was a “singular example" of how a government that patronises a terrorist or separatist movement for “political gain" is irresponsible and to a point “criminal".
“It is not often that countries, friends for decades, should end up as have Canada and India today. The assassination of a person of extreme separatist views Hardeep Singh Nijjar, led to the prime minister of Canada Justin Trudeau pointing his finger, in a parliamentary statement, towards India as being responsible for this act," (sic) he said in a four-page statement on X.
He said this was a violation of the sanctity of Parliament where a prime ministerial statement is taken as “the truth and nothing but the truth". “Are electoral compulsions more important than decades old relationships, national commitments and age old Parliamentary traditions? For Trudeau, it seems so," (sic) he said.
Location :Chandigarh, India
First Published:November 04, 2024, 20:33 IST
News politics 'Trudeau's Canada Singular Example...': Amarinder Singh Amid Khalistani Attack On Temple
