India has explosively rejected attempts by the Canadian authorities to link Indian agents with felonious gangs in Canada.
Justin Trudeau, attesting before the public inquiry into foreign hindrance in civil electoral processes and popular institutions, on Wednesday contended that the Indian diplomats were collecting information on Canadians who are in disagreement with the Narendra Modi government and passing it to the loftiest situations within the Indian government and felonious organisations like the Lawrence Bishnoi gang.
The Lawrence Bishnoi gang has a grim character for assassinations and highway robbery on the Indian soil, but the Royal Canadian Mounted Police has indicted it of possible involvement in Hardeep Singh Nijjar’s payoff. The RCMP named the Lawrence Bishnoi gang as an systematized crime reality used by India to target members of the South Asian diaspora and Sikh secessionists.
India has explosively rejected attempts by the Canadian authorities to link Indian agents with felonious gangs in Canada. Official sources in the Indian government said Canada’s assertion that it participated substantiation with New Delhi in the Sikh rebel Hardeep Singh Nijjar case was “ simply not true.
Justin Trudeau indicted India of violating his country’s sovereignty, as politic pressures soar over the 2023 payoff of Hardeep Nijjar in Vancouver. At the administrative inquiry, Justin Trudeau addressed what he characterised as broad sweats by Indian representatives to silence critics of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government on Canadian soil, news agency AFP reported.
Justin Trudeau further detailed conduct that he said involved Indian “ diplomats collecting information on Canadians who are opponents or in disagreement with the Modi government ”.
He added that information was also passed along to “ the loftiest situations within the Indian government ”, and also “ through felonious organisations like the Lawrence Bishnoi gang to also affect in violence against Canadians on the ground ”.
Trudeau contended that India’s intimidation tactics in Canada were n’t limited simply to the Sikh community. Trudeau also noted his government could have gone public with the allegations when India hosted the G20 Summit in September 2023, but chose not to.
He met with Modi and expressed enterprises intimately also. “ It was a big moment for India drinking all the leaders of the world to New Delhi for a veritably important peak and we had the occasion of making it a veritably uncomfortable peak for India if we went public with these allegations ahead of time,” said Trudeau.
“ We chose to continue to work with India behind the scenes to try and get India to cooperate with us. ” Trudeau said when he returned home India’s response, particularly through the media, was to attack Canada. Trudeau latterly went public in Parliament with the allegation that the Indian government might have been involved in Niijar’s payoff.
Responsibility for damage caused to India- Canada ties lies with Trudeau alone MEA The ministry of external affairs on Thursday said what it has heard only “ confirms ” New Delhi’s harmonious stage that Canada has “ presented us no substantiation ” in support of the serious allegations Ottawa chose to level against India and Indian diplomats.
Trudeau conceded that he’d only intelligence and no “ hard evidentiary evidence ” when he contended the involvement of Indian government agents in the payoff of Nijjar.
The MEA issued a statement in response to media queries related to Trudeau’s deposit, some of whose details came out in media reports. ” What we’ve heard moment only confirms what we’ve been saying constantly each along– Canada has presented us no substantiation whatsoever in support of the serious allegations that it has chosen to level against India and Indian diplomats,” MEA prophet Randhir Jaiswal said in a statement.
The ministry further said,” The responsibility for the damage that this cavalier geste has caused to India- Canada relations lies with Prime Minister Trudeau alone.”
