Amid the India-Canada standoff, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said that he made public allegations against India in the killing of Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Nijjar because there was a need for ‘peace’ and he was against the ongoing reports in the Indian media against Canada. But wanted to apply brakes.
Canada-based CTV News reported that Trudeau was upset with what was being reported in India and wanted to impose that silence on them.
CTV News has said these things on the basis of Trudeau’s interview. Trudeau was speaking to The Canadian Press in a year-end interview on Monday.
Trudeau had to face a lot of criticism at the G-20 summit. After returning from New Delhi from this conference, on September 18, he had alleged in the Canadian Parliament that an Indian officer was involved in the murder of Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar.
After this allegation, Justin Trudeau expelled the Indian diplomat from Ottawa. Due to this the relations between the two countries deteriorated. Retaliating, India also expelled Canadian diplomats.
Justin Trudeau, known to be a sympathizer of Khalistanis, said that many people of the Sikh community were surrounded by security concerns after the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar on June 18, so to allay their security concerns and tell them that their government The situation is at its peak and to stop the news going on against him in India, he had accused India of credible involvement in the murder of Nijjar.
Trudeau said in the interview that he was confident that his words would be leaked to the media. He stressed that he wanted Canadians to know that his government was on top of things.
“We realized that under all the quiet diplomacy and all the measures, there needed to be another level of prevention to keep people safe in the community,” Trudeau said in an interview this week. This needed, perhaps, to be said publicly and loudly.” Then he had said, “We have credible reasons to believe that the Indian government was behind the murder of Nijjar.”
The allegations made by the Canadian Prime Minister were vehemently rejected by India’s Ministry of External Affairs and termed them as absurd and motivated. Trudeau’s September 18 announcement was followed by an urgent demand for evidence not only from India but also from Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre. India repeatedly asked Canada for evidence on the allegations but Canada never provided any concrete evidence to India.