India's main opposition Congress party backed on Wednesday the government's rejection of Canada's suspicions that New Delhi's agents had links to the murder of a Sikh separatist leader, and urged a stand against threats to the country's sovereignty.
Canada's assertion as absurd in a row that is worsening already poor relations between the two members of the G20 grouping, as each expelled one of the other's diplomats.Canadian intelligence agencies were actively pursuing "credible allegations" tying Indian agents to the shooting of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, 45, in British Columbia.
"Trudeau's defence of declared terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar is absolutely shameful and shows how much the present Canadian regime is in bed with Khalistani sympathisers," Abhishek Manu Singhvi, a senior Congress lawmaker, posted on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. "Our country's interests and concerns must be kept paramount at all times," Jairam Ramesh, the chief spokesperson of Congress, said in a posting on X.
New Delhi, which urged Ottawa to act against anti-Indian elements, has long been unhappy over Sikh separatist activity in Canada. Canada has the largest population of Sikhs outside the Indian state of Punjab, with about 770,000 people reporting Sikhism as their religion in the 2021 census.
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