Posted on 02/19/2018 6:24:20 AM PST by sukhoi-30mki
Justin Trudeau, the Canadian prime minister, received a lukewarm welcome at the start of his official India visit, with some claiming he had been "snubbed" by New Delhi over his support of Sikh separatists.
After landing on Saturday, Mr Trudeau was received by a junior agricultural minister and only by district officials when he visited the iconic Taj Mahal in Agra a day later.
His welcome stands in stark contrast to heads of foreign governments who have been personally received at New Delhi’s airport by prime minister Narendra Modi himself, known for his warm public embraces with world leaders.
Mr Trudeau was also not afforded the usual fanfare of being greeted by the provincial chief minister of northern Uttar Pradesh state, where Agra is located.
Diplomatic sources said by "downgrading" these subtle arrangements, Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government was "indicating" its displeasure over Mr Trudeau attending an event organised by Sikhs in Toronto last May that featured posters and flags demanding the Sikh homeland of Khalistan.
Canada is home to 4.68 million Sikhs, comprising 1.4 per cent of its population and a small, but influential number of them had financially and politically backed the 15-year long Sikh insurgency in northern Punjab state for an independent homeland of Khalistan or Land of the Pure.
The Sikh separatist movement claimed over 80,000 lives before it was crushed around 1993, but much to New Delhi’s chagrin small groups of Sikhs in Canada have continued to support the creation of Khalistan.
In a running diplomatic battle that has resulted in turbulent ties between the two countries, India has accused successive Canadian administrations, including Mr Trudeau’s, of backing these Sikh groups, known as Khalistani’s. Many such Sikh activists had also acquired political importance, adding to bilateral seesaw relations between India and Canada.
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Oh, snap, did they really do that?
Is it Halloween in India?
The older boy looks painfully uncomfortable, like, “Dad, are you sure we should be doing this?” Or it could be indigestion.
I suppose when they visit Saudi Arabia he'll be in a dishdasha and ghutra, the wife in a full black eye slit burka, and they'll set aside time for the daughter to have her clitoris removed.
Someones been watching way to many Bollywood movies and maybe the first thing he did shouldn’t have been to ask for steaks and burgers for the family.
That's a LOT of motels and hotels.
Motel Sikhs. We'll leave a light on for ya.
The older boy looks embarrassed.
I guess that whatever infected the US voters causing them in 2008 and 2012 to elect DingleBarry apparently spread to the hosers in 2015.
How can anyone, and especially the Indian, not view Trudeau as a pusillanimous weakling, after seeing him dressed like that?
Trudeau is a cuck’s cuck.
o...m...g
Some idiot...
Canadian Sikhs number roughly 468,670 people and account for roughly 1.4% of Canada’s population.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikhism_in_Canada
Oh, look at those funnily dressed peoplekind.
Maybe he was wearing his wiener socks again.
In loincloths.
They went to the olympics??? (sarcasm based on Chicago TV station misspelling of site of 2018 winter olympics)
Some doofus doesn’t know that “M” means a thousand, I’ll bet that’s where it started.
I would have dismissed this picture as photoshopped. However, the amount of insanity going on around us, including his “peoplekind” commnet . . .
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