Controversy at Khalsa Day parade: Effigy of Modi in chains sparks outcry | World News
Professional-Khalistan components in Canada took their anti-India provocation up a notch on Sunday as a float that includes an effigy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in chains and in a cage was prominently displayed at a Khalsa Day parade within the Higher Toronto Space or GTA.
The Khalsa Day parade was held in Malton, a city within the GTA, and accompanied with contributors holding Khalistan pennants, shouting separatist slogans.
The show was promoted by the secessionist group Sikhs for Justice or SFJ, which linked it to the remark by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Saturday that Canada was “a rule-of-law nation with a robust and impartial justice system, in addition to a basic dedication to defending all its residents.”
The Vaisakhi parade got here every week after Trudeau addressed one other such celebration in Toronto final Sunday, amongst pro-Khalistan slogans and anti-India slogans and signage.
SFJ additionally stated it’s going to convene a ‘Residents Court docket of Canada” in Vancouver on June 18, the primary anniversary of Nijjar’s loss of life, on the “expenses of ordering, abetting, conspiring and facilitating the assassination of Hardeep Singh Nijjar.”
SFJ’s basic counsel Gurpatwant Pannun described it was “duel” between Trudeau’s Canada and Modi’s India which it stated was “accused by Canada and the US for violent transnational repression of professional Khalistan Sikhs.”
Final yr, on June 4, a float that includes the assassination of late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was a part of a shaheedi diwas or martyrdom day occasion in Brampton, within the GTA, marking the thirty ninth anniversary of Operation Bluestar. When Indian forces stormed the Golden Temple in Amritsar on that day in 1984 to flush out separatist chief Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and his supporters.
Different tableaux on the occasion had featured posters of Bhindranwale. Indira Gandhi was assassinated by two members of her safety element on October 31 that yr.
