The newly-elected Punjab chief minister captain Amarinder Singh called Canadian defence minister Harjit Singh Sajjan a “Khalistani sympathizer,” and declared that he will not meet the Indo-Canadian leader during his visit to India later this month.
“Harjit Sajjan is a Khalistani sympathiser,” Amarinder said on the ‘Off the Cuff’ TV show. The CM also went a step ahead to claim that there were, in fact, five ministers in the Justin Trudeau government who were Khalistani sympathizers.
“They had prevailed upon the government to prevent my entry into Canada, where I wanted to go to meet my Punjabi brethren and not to campaign for elections,” he said in a release issued by his team after the programme.
Amarinder’s election campaign in Canada was hindered in the run-up to the Punjab assembly elections last year. He had responded by blaming some Canadian ministers of having “Khalistani leanings” then as well.
The Canadian defence minister may visit India this month in his first trip since his appointment as minister.
