The Indian government’s insistence on flogging the threat of a dead horse called Khalistan will only strain bilateral ties between Ottawa and New Delhi further.
At a press conference on 8 June to mark nine years of Narendra Modi as the Indian prime minister, union minister for external affairs S. Jaishankar’s ire was directed towards Canada. At a time when offensive foreign policy headlines are dominated solely by Pakistan, the minister warned Canada that giving “space… to separatists, extremists” was “not good for the relationship”. He was responding to a question after a video clip on social media showed a float as part of a parade held in Brampton on 4 June, that seemed to celebrate the assassination of former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. …
Sushant Singh is a lecturer at Yale University. Previously, he was a senior fellow at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, and deputy editor of The Indian Express. A winner of the prestigious Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards in 2017 and 2018, he had earlier served in the Indian Army for two decades. He is also the author of Mission Overseas and co-author of Note by Note: The India Story.
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