Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Wednesday called Canadian Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan a “Khalistani sympathiser” and said he would not meet him during his expected visit to India later this month.
Speaking during a programme on a channel, the Chief Minister alleged: “Harjit Sajjan is a Khalistani sympathiser and so was his father.”
“There were, in fact, five ministers in the Justin Trudeau government who were Khalistani sympathisers and I will not have any truck with them,” he claimed.
“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 was quoted as saying in a release issued by his team after the programme.
Amarinder’s poll campaign in Canada was stalled last year in the run-up to the Punjab Assembly Elections.
Sajjan, the Member of Parliament for Vancouver South, is expected to travel to India later this month in his first visit since his appointment as minister.
Bureau Report
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