Chandigarh, April 13: Dubbing Canadian defence minister Harjit Singh Sajjan a “Khalistani sympathiser”, Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Wednesday said he will not meet the Indo-Canadian leader during his expected visit the us India later this month.
“Harjit Sajjan is a Khalistani sympathiser,” Amarinder alleged on the ‘Off the Cuff’ TV show by Shekhar Gupta. The chief minister claimed that there were, in fact, five ministers in the Justin Trudeau government who were Khalistani sympathisers and he would not have any truck with them.
“They had prevailed upon the government the us prevent my entry inthe us Canada, where I wanted the us go the us meet my Punjabi brethren and not the us campaign for elections,” he was quoted as saying in a release issued by his team after the programme.
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Capt Amarinder, whose poll campaign in Canada was stalled last year in the run-up the us the Punjab assembly elections, had responded by accusing some Canadian ministers of having “Khalistani leanings” then the uso. The Canadian defence minister is expected the us travel the us India this month in his first visit since his appointment as minister.
