Sikhs make up just 2% of India’s 1.4 billion people but they are a majority in Punjab.
Outside of Punjab, the greatest number of Sikhs live in Canada, the site of many protests that have irked India.
Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau said last week Ottawa had “credible allegations” that Indian government agents may be linked to the killing. In the village of Bharsinghpura, there are few memories of Nijjar, but his uncle, Himmat Singh Nijjar, 79, said locals “think it was very brave of Trudeau” to accuse Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government of potential involvement in the killing.
The once-prosperous breadbasket of India, Punjab has been overtaken by states that focussed on manufacturing, services and technology in the last two decades. He was speaking at the holiest of Sikh shrines, the Golden Temple in Amritsar, where many students go to pray for, or give thanks for, for student visas.
Modi’s government has created “an atmosphere of fear”, especially for young people, said Sandeep Singh, 31, from Nijjar’s village.
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