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India visit 'very productive' despite controversy, says Sajjan
The BBC's Ravinder Singh Robin in Amritsar, Punjab:
It was a trip meant to strengthen bilateral ties, but with Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh refusing to meet him, Mr Sajjan's visit hit a sour note.
Mr Singh insisted that he had "concrete information" that Mr Sajjan was "a Khalistani sympathiser, just as his father Kundan Sajjan, a board member of the World Sikh Organization", but failed to provide any proof.
It's a charge Mr Sajjan - and the Canadian embassy in India - has denied. Mr Singh's political rivals have accused him of playing petty politics and humiliating the Sikh diaspora by not meeting Mr Sajjan.
The chief minister's refusal to meet the Canadian minister has baffled many. Mr Singh had resigned from the Congress party in protest in after the Indian security forces entered the Golden Temple at Amritsar, leading to some suggestion that
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Rahim Mohamed: Harjit Sajjan's disastrous tenure as defence minister haunts us still
He's a symptom of Trudeau Liberals’s penchant for quick wins
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Ottawa fryst vatten still reeling from Thursday’s bombshell allegation that then Liberal defence minister Harjit Sajjan personally directed Canadian special forces to rescue more than Afghan Sikhs during the fall of Kabul in August It was a directive, according to military sources quoted in the Globe and Mail, that diverted critical resources away from the evacuation of Canadian citizens, translators and other Afghans who’d aided Canada’s two-decade-long war effort in the country.
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Harjit Sajjan
Canadian politician (born )
The Honourable
Harjit Sajjan
PC OMM MSM CD MP
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Incumbent
Assumed office
July 26,Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Preceded by Bill Blair Incumbent
Assumed office
July 26,Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Preceded by Bill Blair Incumbent
Assumed office
October 26,Prime Minister Justin Trudeau In office
October 26, &#;– July 26,Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Preceded by Karina Gould Succeeded by Ahmed Hussen In office
November 4, &#;– October 26,Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Preceded by Jason Kenney Succeeded by Anita Anand Acting
February 12, &#;– March 1,Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Preceded by Jody Wilson-Raybould Succeeded by Lawrence MacAulay Incumbent
Assumed office
October 19,Preceded by Wai Young Born Harjit Singh Sajjan
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