Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, India’s international minister, mentioned as a lot earlier this month, after videos on social media confirmed a parade float in Brampton, Ontario, that depicted the assassination of Indira Gandhi, the previous Indian prime minister. Ms. Gandhi was shot by two Sikh bodyguards in the aftermath of violence that gripped the Indian state of Punjab in 1984.
“I think it’s not good for the relationship, and I think it’s not good for Canada,” Mr. Jaishankar mentioned throughout a information convention.
My colleague in New Delhi, Karan Deep Singh, who watched the information convention, has been following the information surrounding Mr. Nijjar’s dying.
He famous {that a} November 2020 charge sheet filed by India’s National Investigation Agency mentioned that Mr. Nijjar was accused of finishing up terrorist assaults in India and that he had been “trying to radicalize Sikh community across the world in favor of creation of ‘Khalistan.’”
“He has been trying to incite, Sikhs to vote for secession, agitate against the government of India and carry out violent activities, through various posts, audio messages and videos posted on social media,” the company wrote.
Mr. Nijjar denied these accusations in Canadian media experiences.
“Surinder Singh Jodhka, a professor of sociology at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, told me that even though the separatist movement in Punjab had barely any sympathy among the average Sikh, both in 1984 and today, the community has not forgotten the toll of the violence,” Karan mentioned in an e mail.
In the times following Ms. Gandhi’s dying in October 1984, riots and retaliatory violence killed no less than 3,000 people, most of them Sikhs in the capital, New Delhi, in line with authorities estimates. Sikh organizations have estimated the dying toll to be much higher.
