Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, for the primary time, has stated that Khalistani separatists don’t characterize the Sikh group in Canada.
Trudeau made this comment throughout an occasion in Ottawa’s Parliament Hill on Monday to have a good time Diwali and Bandi Chhor Diwas. That Diwali occasion was organised by Cupboard Ministers Anita Anand and Gary Anandasangaree.
A video of his remarks to the gathering was shared with the Hindustan Occasions by an attendee. Trudeau stated, “There are various supporters of Khalistan in Canada however they don’t characterize the Sikh group as a complete.”
His feedback got here a day after the Hindu Sabha Mandir in Brampton witnessed a violent assault by pro-Khalistan parts, which led to tensions creating as a livid Indo-Canadian group challenged the separatists.
“There is no such thing as a room for violence or intolerance or intimidation or division. That isn’t who’re,” Trudeau stated.
He additionally stated, “We encourage individuals to carry on to their cultures and their communities,” including, “The problem is that in holding all these completely different opinions, we mustn’t ever allow them to divide us.”
He additionally reiterated that his Authorities stood for ‘One India’, and the nation’s territorial integrity. Nonetheless, he didn’t spare New Delhi, as he stated, “There are various supporters of the (Prime Minister Narendra) Modi Authorities is Canada however they don’t characterize all Hindu Canadians as a complete.”
Reacting to Trudeau’s comment on not conflating Sikhs with Khalistanis, former British Columbia Premier Ujjal Dosanjh stated, “In my reminiscence of him, that is the primary time he’s acknowledging the Sikh group as separate from Khalistanis.”
Dosanjh was additionally a former Liberal Occasion Cupboard Minister on the Federal stage.
He hoped Trudeau would “put a ways between himself and the Khalistanis.”
He additionally criticised the Canadian mainstream media for portray Canadian Sikhs as Khalistanis and describing them as ‘activists’. Dosanjh stated, “They’re doing an enormous disservice to Canada and to the Sikhs, after they painting a handful of Khalistanis as representing them. That’s completely false.”
