{"id":31149,"date":"2018-10-27T12:20:14","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T06:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=31149"},"modified":"2018-10-27T12:20:14","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T06:50:14","slug":"khalistan-casts-shadow-over-trudeau-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/khalistan-casts-shadow-over-trudeau-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Khalistan casts shadow over Trudeau visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/khalistan-casts-shadow-over-trudeau-visit\/article22801972.ece\"><b>Khalistan casts shadow over Trudeau visit<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>The Khalistan issue, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">which kept India-Canada ties on ice through three decades from 1980, <\/span><b>has re-emerged.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>\u201cKhalsa day\u201d parade<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The seeds for the current tensions have been sown <\/span><b>since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau came to power in 2015.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A major breaking point came when Mr. Trudeau attended a <\/span><b>\u201cKhalsa day\u201d parade<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> organised by one of the more radical gurudwaras in Toronto.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the time, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) made it clear that <\/span><b>India\u2019s protest had been taken up with the Canadian government.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Among other disturbing issues was the <\/span><b>felicitation at the parade of a politician responsible for a resolution in the Ontario assembly that accused India of \u201cgenocide\u201d during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a vote that India had also protested strongly.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Issues over the growth of Sikh extremist groups, especially those seeking a <\/span><b>\u201creferendum 2020\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">for the worldwide Sikh diaspora to vote on an <\/span><b>\u201cIndependent Khalistan\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, have been raised several times in the past few years.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another sore point on the current visit has been Mr. Trudeau\u2019s <\/span><b>insistence on including Ministers in his cabinet accused of sympathising with the Khalistan movement<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Khalistan casts shadow over Trudeau visit Context: The Khalistan issue, which kept India-Canada ties on ice through three decades from 1980, has re-emerged. \u201cKhalsa day\u201d parade: The seeds for the current tensions have been sown since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau came to power in 2015. A major breaking point came when Mr. Trudeau attended a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/khalistan-casts-shadow-over-trudeau-visit\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Khalistan casts shadow over Trudeau visit<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704909126},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}