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Concerning reports coming from Canada: Labour MP

In an explosive charge on Monday, Canadian PM Trudeau alleged that Indian agents were behind the fatal shooting of Khalistan Tiger Force chief Hardeep Singh Nijjar…reports Asian Lite News

Amid the sharp escalation in diplomatic tensions, triggered by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s allegation of Indian involvement in the killing of a Sikh separatist leader on its soil, British Labour Party MP Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi on Tuesday said many “anxious, angry and fearful Sikhs” from Slough and beyond have contacted him.

He added that the reports coming out of Canada were “concerning”.

Taking to his official handle on X, the British Labour MP posted, “Concerning reports coming from #Canada. Many #Sikhs from #Slough and beyond have contacted me; anxious, angry or fearful. Given Canadian PM Trudeau stated they’ve been working with close allies, we’re in touch with UK Gov to ensure justice is delivered.”

In an explosive charge on Monday, Canadian PM Trudeau alleged that Indian agents were behind the fatal shooting of Khalistan Tiger Force chief Hardeep Singh Nijjar.

Addressing the Canadian Parliament on Monday (US local time), Trudeau claimed that his country’s national security officials had reasons to believe that “agents of the Indian government” carried out the killing of the Canadian citizen, who also served as the president of Surrey’s Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara.

“Canadian security agencies have been actively pursuing credible allegations of a potential link between agents of the Government of India and the killing of a Canadian citizen, Hardeep Singh Nijjar,” Trudeau said.

India, however, rejected the allegations, terming them “absurd” and “motivated”.

“We have seen and rejected the statement of the Canadian Prime Minister in their Parliament, as also the statement by their Foreign Minister,” the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said in an official statement.

“Allegations of the Indian government’s involvement in any act of violence in Canada are absurd and motivated,” it stated.

World leaders also expressed ‘deep concerns’ over Trudeau’s allegations linking the Indian government to the fatal shooting of the Khalistan Tiger Force chief in British Columbia, Canada. (ANI)

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Labour MP’s tweet on Sunak sparks outrage

In a statement to BBC, Whittome’s office said: “Like Rishi Sunak, Ms Whittome is second-generation British India…reports Asian Lite News

Labour MP Nadia Whittome has deleted a tweet, which she posted earlier this week saying Rishi Sunak becoming Prime Minister “isn’t a win for Asian representation”.

Whittome was “instructed” to remove her tweet, a spokesman for Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer confirmed, after it drew backlash on social media, the BBC reported.

“Rishi Sunak as prime minister isn’t a win for Asian representation,” Whittome wrote in the tweet, which now stands deleted.

“He’s a multi-millionaire who, as chancellor, cut taxes on bank profits while overseeing the biggest drop in living standards since 1956. Black, white or Asian: if you work for a living, he is not on your side,” she added.

Whittome’s Punjabi Sikh father emigrated to the UK from Banga, Punjab at the age of 21. Her mother is an Anglo-Indian Catholic solicitor and former member of the Labour Party.

In a statement to BBC, Whittome’s office said: “Like Rishi Sunak, Ms Whittome is second-generation British Indian.

“Ms Whittome was pointing to Rishi Sunak’s record as chancellor to demonstrate that effective political representation of British Asian communities — and the interests of all working people — is about far more than the ethnicity of the prime minister.”

Labour Party leader Keir Starmer, meanwhile, “welcomed” the appointment of Sunak as “the first British Asian Prime Minister”, describing it as a “real milestone for our country”.

But on being pressed by the Sky News on Wednesday to comment on the issue, he said: “The position of the Labour party is the position that I have set out. the whole Labour Party supports that, and we’re very, very pleased to do that”.

Whittome, a staunch critic of Sunak, had earlier tweeted: “Rishi Sunak and his wife sit on a fortune of 730,000,000 pounds. That’s around twice the estimated wealth of King Charles III. Remember this whenever he talks about making ‘tough decisions’ that working class people will pay for.”

She was elected in 2019 at the age of 23 as a member of the Labour party, and became the “Baby of the House” as the youngest MP.

Before her election, she was a hate crime worker, and prior to that a care worker while studying law at the University of Nottingham.

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