In a sharp re­ac­tion to the Pub­lic Safety Re­port on ter­ror­ism threat to Canada, Sikh body Dal Khalsa has urged the Cana­dian gov­ern­ment to with­draw the por­tion that makes urges Cana­dian Gov­ern­ment to with­draw the base­less men­tion of Sikh (Khal­is­tani) ex­trem­ism in the 2018 Pub­lic Safety Re­port on the Ter­ror­ism threat to Canada.

The Pub­lic Safety Canada 2018 re­port made pub­lic two days ago has re­ceived sharp re­ac­tions from Sikhs in Canada and home­land Pun­jab. 

Ex­press­ing sur­prise and dis­ap­point­ment at the move of the Cana­dian gov­ern­ment, Dal Khalsa leader Har­cha­ran­jit Singh Dhami said Justin Trudeau’s gov­ern­ment has com­mit­ted a gross er­ror in ma­lign­ing the Sikh im­age ap­par­ently un­der in­flu­ence of In­dian gov­ern­men­t’s false pro­pa­ganda. Canada’s move amounts to stereo­typed pro­fil­ing of Sikhs, he added.

“We did not ex­pect from Trudeau Gov­ern­ment that it would toe the In­dian line so eas­ily. “If the Cana­dian gov­ern­ment thinks that by do­ing so it will be able to pla­cate the Modi dis­pen­sa­tion, it is mis­taken”, said the Dal Khalsa leader. More­over Canada should not set a stage to lose the over­whelm­ing love of the Sikh com­mu­nity show­ered on the Prime Min­is­ter, his fam­ily and his en­tourage dur­ing their visit to Dar­bar Sahib, also known as the Golden Tem­ple in early Feb­ru­ary this year. 

“The In­dian me­dia, al­ways on the of­fen­sive to show Sikhs seek­ing right to self-de­ter­mi­na­tion in a poor light, has al­ready started de­scrib­ing the 2018 Pub­lic Safety Re­port as a course cor­rec­tion to put In­dia-Canada ties on track.” It is sur­pris­ing that the Cana­dian gov­ern­ment did not learn from how the In­dian me­dia cov­ered Justin Trudeau’s visit.

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The Cana­dian gov­ern­ment has missed a golden op­por­tu­nity to dis­lodge the base­less con­cerns of In­dian state re­gard­ing the threat to its in­tegrity from Cana­dian Sikhs sup­port­ing the cause of right to self-de­ter­mi­na­tion in Pun­jab, he ob­served. 

Hoshiarpur, 14 De­cem­ber 2018, WSN News Bu­reau