Anil Trigunayat, a former Diplomat said on the India-Canada row that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is accountable for the worsening relationship between both the countries. Justin Trudeau cultivated and pandered to the anti-India extremists, terrorists and separatist groups, said Trigunayat.
He said, ‘I think that the relationship between India and Canada has hit the rock bottom and the credit for this goes to the current Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, who has made it a point to cultivate and to pander to the anti-India extremists, terrorists and separatist groups and is supporting them and has been making various allegations against India and the killing of a terrorist called Nijjar and since then they have not provided any evidence’.
Former IFS officer and President of India Habitat Centre, Bhaswati Mukherjee said that the statement by Canada is extremely provocative. She said, ‘The sharp statement that came from the Canadian side, was extremely provocative. It said that our high commissioner to Canada was the representative of the President of India to Canada and is a suspect in our murder assassination case, which implies that they are neither respecting the Indian convention nor are they giving any indication that they will issue his safety’.
Mukherjee further said that India reacted as it is an independent sovereign country.
‘Since we are not a banana Republican, but a proud, democratic, independent, sovereign country, we reacted sharply because no country in the world, unless it was a banana republic, would have reacted in any other way’, she said. India and Canada have been dealing with diplomatic crisis after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau alleged that Indian government agents were involved in the killing of Nijjar in Canada. India has rejected Canada’s allegations, terming it absurd and politically motivated.
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