In a scathing statement, former Chief Minister of Punjab, Captain Amarinder Singh has denounced the Justin Trudeau regime for his governmental support of Khalistani separatists and terrorists. The veteran leader also slammed the Trudeau government for destroying relations between the two countries for his political benefits.
Blaming Trudeau for using the killing of terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar as an electoral ploy, Singh said “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.”
“He later stated that he didn’t have concrete evidence, but that fingers pointed in that direction. This itself is 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 comments and age old Parliamentary traditions? For Trudeau, it seems so.” he said.
Singh also recalled that when he was the Chief Minister, Trudeau, while patronizing Khalistani separatism had decided to send a representative leader to meet him, the leader was an active member of the Khalistan movement. Singh had refused to meet the said minister.
“Some months later Trudeau visited Punjab and refused to meet me till he was told in no uncertain terms by the then External Affairs minister Sushma Swaraj that if he did not meet the Chief Minister, he could not visit the State. He was accompanied by his Defence Minister Sajjan, I presume an attempt to get one up on me! I told him in no uncertain terms of Punjab’s problems with Canada. It had become a haven of the Khalistani separatist movement, which no Punjabi wanted, and also of gun running, drugs and gangsters.”
Singh also accused Trudeau of harboring separatist leaders among his own ranks, “I handed him a list of over twenty leading individuals who were actively involved in this movement, some were also members of his cabinet, one of whom was sitting beside him. I was promised that he would look into these grievances. On the contrary, since our meeting these nefarious activities have grown. The Kanishka bombing is now out of his mind and so are the other acts that continue to destabilize Punjab.”
The Former Punjab CM explained how Trudeau is patronizing the separatists, in an effort to use Punjabis as his vote bank, “Some countries that permit a separatist movement to exist in their jurisdiction are keeping such movements in check, but in the case of Canada, a government that patronizes a terrorist or a separatist movement for political gain, is irresponsible and to a point criminal. There is a strong perception that Trudeau is using Punjabis to sustain his government, without realizing the decline in his affinity with them in his own country and even in India.”
He also went on to attack the Canadian Prime Minister for his baseless allegations on the NSA and the Union Minister of Home Affairs, Amit Shah, “To turn the spotlight away from himself, his severing of diplomatic ties by initially accusing our security agencies of engineering Nijjar’s assassination, then naming officers who he claims were responsible. He then comes to accuse our National Security Advisor and finally, he now points his finger at India’s Minister of Home Affairs Mr Amit Shah.”
Singh concluded by saying that he hoped time would help usher in a change in Canadian politics, that will spell the end of the insipid Trudeau regime. He also looked forward to a better relationship between India and Canada once Trudeau’s partisan politics are out of the picture that will benefit the state of Punjab.
