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Sikh activist Moninder Singh speaks at a press conference held at Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara, site of the 2023 murder of Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar, in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. — Reuters/File
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Members of the Sikh community in Canada have expressed strong concern over the government’s decision to invite Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the G7 summit in Alberta.
Some members of the community, who say they were warned by the Canadian police that their lives were in danger, alleging that the Indian government was responsible for the dangers they were facing.
Despite not being a member of India G7, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Karni invited Modi to attend as a guest. The program, which began on Sunday, is a Modi first visit to Canada in a decade and offers a diplomatic challenge for Carney, which is relatively new in the political arena.
Former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in 2023 is in a tension with India, who accused India of joining the Indian government on June 18, 2023, following the assassination of Hardp Singh Najar, a Sikh separatist leader in Canada.
Modi’s government has denied involvement in Najar’s murder and has accused Canada of providing a safe haven for Sikh separatists.
“Anger” is a term that I have heard from people, “Najar’s friend, Sikh activist Monder Singh said about the invitation.
He and other Sikh leaders plan to protest in Ottawa on Saturday.
In a trade war with the United States, the corneal is trying to advance the coalition somewhere else and diversify Canadian exports. Carney told reporters that he invited India because of its importance in a global supply chain.
Indian Foreign Ministry spokesman Randhir Jeswal said at a press briefing on Thursday that a meeting between Modi and Carney would offer “an important opportunity for him to exchange ideas on bilateral and global issues and find ways to establish or reset relations.”
Sikhs face threats
It is a hollow rings for the rational Singh, who lives in British Columbia. He has received several warnings by the police that his life is in danger. One such warning forced him from his home in 2023 to protect his children.
“At the personal level, and even at the social level, it was deeply humiliated … Sikh life is not as important as the world’s fifth largest economy needs to be placed,” he said.
The carnie spokesman did not immediately respond to the request to comment.
The Royal Canadian Mounting Police said in October that they had given more than a dozen threats to people like Singh who were advocating for the formation of Sikhs from India.
In October, under Trudeau, Canada expelled six Indian diplomats, and linked them to Najjar’s murder, and accused Indian differences in Canada of a wide range of government efforts by collecting casualties, extortion, use of organized crime and confrontation.
India retaliated by ordering six Canadian diplomats to be deported and encouraged the allegations controversial and politically. Canada has said he has no evidence of Modi to link the threat.
This tension has led to the Sikh community of Canada-the largest state outside the Sikh-majority Punjab state in India.
Singh said that there should be conditions about Modi’s invitation.
“Any meeting with them should have been in the conditions that Mr Modi and his government would accept responsibility for which they have been disclosed and cooperated, but none of this happened.”
Karni told reporters that Modi had agreed to “law enforcement dialogue”. Indian and Canadian law enforcement agencies will continue to cooperate in some ways, Jeswal said.
Some workers and politicians in Canada have accused Carney of advancing economic problems before human rights concerns.
But Sanjay Rupalia, a professor of Toronto Metropolitan University politics, said the prime minister was merely practiced.
“(Carnie) Watch Word Since she has come to the office is practicing. And this is a very practical, realistic decision.”
