LONDON: Pro-Khalistan Sikhs For Justice (SFJ) has urged Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to declare Indian High Commissioner to Canada Sanjay Verma as persona non grata and expel him.
It also called for holding a ‘Shaheed Nijjar Referendum’ on October 29 in Surrey, British Columbia after a prominent Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar was murdered allegedly by Indian agents in June this year.
Meanwhile, SFJ leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannun said India’s attempts to coerce him through asset seizures in Indian Punjab and false cases would not deter the Khalistan Referendum movement.
He stated this after India’s federal anti-terror agency said it had confiscated the properties of Pannun whom it accused of terror activities in India.
Pannun said India was desperate over the success of Khalistan Referendum campaign which had mobilized tens of thousands of Sikhs in UK, Canada, Europe and America through Khalistan referendum voting. On the seizure of his property in Punjab, Pannun said the issue was not the properties of an individual. The issue is about the land of the Sikh people – Punjab – that is forcefully occupied by India and the resources of the indigenous people of Punjab that are being plundered by Delhi.
In 2020, India asked Interpol to issue a red corner notice against Pannun accusing him of being a terrorist but after review of the case, Interpol rejected India’s request on the grounds that India had failed to produce any evidence linking Pannun with any act of violence or terrorism.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently said his country had credible intelligence linking Indian government agents to the murder in Canada in June of Nijjar who was President of Khalistan Referendum chapter in Canada, under the banner of SFJ.
This isn’t the first time India has acted against Pannun. He has faced several cases in India over the last several years. According to Indian media reports, the New York based lawyer faces over 25 criminal cases in India. The NIA, in its latest action, seized properties of Pannun in Chandigarh, and Amritsar.
Last week, Pannun called on the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to immediately expel India’s High Commissioner to Canada Sanjay Verma from Canada after the Canadian prime minister confirmed that the Indian government was behind Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar’s assassination in Vancouver around three months ago.
Gurpatwant Singh Pannun had said: “Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s statement in the Parliament corroborates SFJ’s stance on Nijjar’s assassination.
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