Farmers’ protest | India summons Canadian High Commissioner; issues demarche over Trudeau’s remarks
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External Affairs Ministry instructed that such actions, if continued, would have a “seriously damaging” influence on the bilateral ties.
Comments from the management and different members of the Canadian authorities relating to the continued farmers agitation is “unacceptable interference” in India’s affairs, the Ministry of External Affairs stated on Friday. This message was conveyed to the Canadian High Commissioner Nadir Patel by senior Indian diplomats after he was formally summoned to the ministry and handed over a demarche on this regard.
“The Canadian High Commissioner was ..informed that comments by the Canadian Prime Minister, some Cabinet Ministers and Members of Parliament on issues relating to Indian farmers constitute an unacceptable interference in our internal affairs. Such actions, if continued, would have a seriously damaging impact on ties between India and Canada,” said the Ministry of External Affairs in a statement that summed up the contents of the demarche issued to the Canadian High Commissioner.
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Friday’s comment is tougher compared to the previous official statement issued on December 1 when India had avoided naming Prime Minister of Canada even though Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had expressed concern about the condition of the farmers in his Gurupurav message.
Mr Trudeau’s coalition partner Jagmeet Singh of New Democratic Party has made several public comments about the farmers agitation. In his message he had praised the farmers saying they are opposing “privatisation”. “As millions of farmers walk towards the Indian capital, they walk with this spirit (of Guru Nanak)”, Mr Singh had stated on November 30. Another MP Jack Harris had criticised India’s dealing with of the protests and stated “We are shocked” through the police motion in opposition to the farmers.
The December 1 assertion from the MEA had merely described the Canadian messages as “ill-informed”. However Friday’s demarche says the feedback from the Canadian authorities “have encouraged gatherings of extremist activities in front of our High Commission and Consulates in Canada that raise issues of safety and security.”
The farmers agitation in India have discovered a powerful echo among the many Indo-Canadian neighborhood lots of whom got here from the north Indian plains. Various cities in Canada have witnessed drive by protests and gatherings by Indo-Canadians in opposition to the police motion on the farmers close to Delhi.
“We expect the Canadian Government to ensure the fullest security of Indian diplomatic personnel and its political leaders to refrain from pronouncements that legitimise extremist activism,” stated the MEA in its assertion.
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