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Zero Tolerance For ‘Khalistani Sympathisers’: Punjab CM Will Not Meet Visiting Canadian Defence Minister
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh (centre) (NARINDER NANU/AFP/GettyImages
Punjab's newly elected Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh minced no words when he said that he will have nothing to do with ‘Khalistani sympathisers’ as he refused to have any meeting with Canadian Defence Minister Harjit Singh Sajjana, a “Khalistani sympathiser”, during his expected visit to India later this month.
Captain Singh, whose poll campaign in Canada was stalled last year in the run-up to the Punjab assembly elections, alleged on the TV show 'Off the Cuff', by Shekhar Gupta that “Harjit Sajjan is a Khalistani sympathiser,”.
Adding that there were in fact, five ministers in the Justin Trudeau government with ‘Khalistani’ leanings, he made it clear that he would have nothing to do with any of them.
“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 by the Hindustan Times as saying.
Captain Singh, known for his candidness, has spoken his mind on a variety of issues - the latest being on the electronic voting machine controversy, when he dismissed the claim of tampering. He said if the EVMs had been tampered with in Punjab, he would “not be sitting here today”.
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