The federal government has determined to withdraw its Excessive Commissioner in Canada after Ottawa linked him and another Indian diplomats to the killing of Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar. “We have now no religion within the present Canadian Authorities’s dedication to make sure their safety,” the federal government conveyed to the Canadian Cost d’Affaires who was summoned by the Ministry of Exterior Affairs (MEA) this night.
“It was underlined that in an environment of extremism and violence, the Trudeau Authorities’s actions endangered their security. We have now no religion within the present Canadian Authorities’s dedication to make sure their safety. Subsequently, the Authorities of India has determined to withdraw the Excessive Commissioner and different focused diplomats and officers,” the international ministry mentioned.
The ties between the 2 nations plunged additional after Canada mentioned it was investigating the Indian Excessive Commissioner as a “individual of curiosity” within the killing of Nijjar.
The Overseas Ministry acquired a “diplomatic communication from Canada yesterday suggesting that the Indian Excessive Commissioner and different diplomats are ‘individuals of curiosity’ in a matter associated to an investigation in that nation”.
It mentioned that the aspersions solid on Excessive Commissioner Sanjay Kumar Verma by Canada had been “ludicrous”.
“Excessive Commissioner Sanjay Kumar Verma is India’s senior-most serving diplomat with a distinguished profession spanning 36 years. He has been an Ambassador in Japan and Sudan, whereas additionally serving in Italy, Turkiye, Vietnam and China. The aspersions solid on him by the Authorities of Canada are ludicrous and need to be handled with contempt,” the international ministry mentioned.
It hit out on the “preposterous” allegations, terming them a “technique of smearing India for political beneficial properties”.
The federal government additionally knowledgeable the senior diplomat of Canada this night that the “baseless focusing on of the Indian Excessive Commissioner and different diplomats and officers in Canada was utterly unacceptable”.
It was additionally conveyed that India reserves the precise to take additional steps in response to the Trudeau Authorities’s help for extremism, violence and separatism in opposition to India, it mentioned.