New Delhi:
Senior diplomat Sanjay Kumar Verma, envoy to Canada who was not too long ago recalled, informed EDNBOX immediately that there are some in Justin Trudeau administration who’re anti-India and the Canadian Prime Minister is politically near Khalistanis. Mr Trudeau, he added, is in a good spot, so pleasing this explicit constituency has turn out to be necessary.
In an unique interview to EDNBOX, Mr Verma stated, “Trudeau’s scores are happening in Canada… (so) his actions towards India are politically motivated”.
“There are components that need to harm India-Canada ties… Many in Trudeau authorities are anti-India”.
Mr Verma — one of many nation’s senior-most diplomats who has served in Japan, Sudan, Italy, Turkey, Vietnam and China — was recalled not too long ago from Canada after the Trudeau administration accused him of being linked to the homicide of Khalistani separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar.
Ties between the 2 nations – on a downward spiral since Mr Trudeau’s allegation in September 2023 that Indian brokers have been answerable for the homicide of Nijjar – have nosedived after the contemporary allegation.
It had led to robust statements from either side and tit-for-tat expulsions by New Delhi and Ottawa.