New Delhi:
Senior diplomat Sanjay Kumar Verma, envoy to Canada who was not too long ago recalled, instructed NDTV as we speak that there are some in Justin Trudeau administration who’re anti-India and the Canadian Prime Minister is politically near Khalistanis. Mr Trudeau, he added, is in a decent spot, so pleasing this explicit constituency has grow to be essential. Khalistani extremism in Canada, he stated in an unique interview to NDTV, is a enterprise. The cash generated is used to destabilise India and for these separatists to guide a lavish way of life. So as soon as that’s threatened, there are repercussions.
“There have been threats to Indian leaders and diplomats. He himself had been threatened, Mr Verma stated. “Very not too long ago Holi, i used to be portrayed as Ravan and my effigy was burnt. There was one other poster the place folks would come and practise firearms on my face. Many issues have gone on there which might not occur in a well mannered society that respects others,” he added.
Regarding the Canadian Prime Minister, he stated, “Trudeau’s scores are happening in Canada… (so) his actions in opposition to India are politically motivated”.
“There are parts that wish to damage India-Canada ties… Many in Trudeau authorities are anti-India”.
Mr Verma — one of many nation’s senior-most diplomats who has served in Japan, Sudan, Italy, Turkey, Vietnam and China — was recalled not too long ago from Canada after the Trudeau administration accused him of being related to the homicide of Khalistani separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar.
Ties between the 2 nations – on a downward spiral since Mr Trudeau’s allegation in September 2023 that Indian brokers had been chargeable for the homicide of Nijjar – have nosedived after the contemporary allegation.
It had led to robust statements from each side and tit-for-tat expulsions by New Delhi and Ottawa. Mr Verma was declared “personna non grata” – a primary for any Indian ambassador.