Canada’s Startling Claim Punctuates Tension With India Over Separatists NYT 19-9-2023 https://dnyuz.com/2023/09/19/canadas-startling-claim-punctuates-tension-with-india-over-separatists/ The allegation that India was involved in the killing of a Sikh leader in Canada came after New Delhi had accused Western countries of inaction on secessionist groups.
India’s response has been a reflection, in part, of domestic politics. The Indian government has long maintained that the Khalistan cause carries little support in Punjab. Yet governing-party officials painted the Sikh-dominated farmers’ movement of 2020 and 2021, the biggest
challenge to Mr. Modi’s decade-long rule, with the same broad “secessionist” brush they have applied to extremist Sikh elements abroad.