‘Glory of terror…’ rift in Trudeau’s party, Hindu MP shouts

Ottawa: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s uneasiness over alleged support for Khalistan supporters in the Liberal Party came to the fore on Thursday when his party’s Hindu MP Chandra Arya declared, ‘The majority of our Canadian Sikh brothers and sisters do not support the Khalistan movement. The statement came amid criticism of ‘excess’ against the community in India by a section of Sikh MPs led by Sukh Dhaliwal of the Liberal Party.

According to the Times of India, Arya accused US-based outlaw Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) separatist Gurpatwant Singh Pannu of trying to incite Canadian Hindus through hateful videos and asking them to go back to India. Sikh communities in Canada.

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The Hindu MP condemned his own government
In a veiled condemnation of Trudeau and his own party’s government, Arya tweeted, ‘I fail to understand how glorifying terrorism or a hate crime targeting a religious group can be justified in the name of freedom of speech and expression. How is it given? If a white supremacist attacked a group of ethnic Canadians and told them to get out of our country, outrage would erupt across Canada. But apparently this Khalistani leader can get away with this hate crime.

A few days ago, Gurpatwant Singh Pannu, the leader of the Khalistan movement in Canada and the president of Sikhs for Justice, who organized the so-called referendum, attacked Hindu-Canadians and asked us to leave Canada and go back to India.
I have heard from many Hindu-Canadians who… pic.twitter.com/z3vkAcsUDs

— Chandra Arya (@AryaCanada) September 20, 2023

On the other hand, fellow MP Dhaliwal claimed in Parliament that he was denied an Indian visa for speaking out against ‘atrocities against Sikhs’ in India, which he termed as ‘so-called democracy’. He urged the Conservatives, Liberals, NDP and all other Canadian politicians to condemn it, saying, ‘The Government of India is intimidating our Parliament, let alone the public.’

The NDP’s Jagmeet Singh said India denied him a visa to travel to Amritsar in December when he was a member of the Ontario provincial parliament in 2013. He told Canada’s The Times of India that it appeared ‘the Indian government is upset with him for demanding justice for the victims of the November 1984 anti-Sikh riots’.

The MP asked Canadian Hindus to be cautious
Fellow Sikh MPs Harjit Singh Sajjan, Randeep Sarai and Ekwinder Singh Gahir also spoke out against the ‘foreign interference’ and ‘security of Canadians’ measures in Parliament. Arya argued that although ‘most Canadian Sikhs cannot publicly condemn the Khalistan movement for various reasons’, they are deeply connected to the Canadian Hindu community ‘through family ties and shared social and cultural ties’. The Liberal MP advised Canadian Hindus to remain calm but vigilant and to ‘report any incidents of Hinduphobia to local law-enforcement agencies.’

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