Is India Insulting Canada With This Bogus Sikh Terror Camp News Planted In Indian Media

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Accused Terror Camp Organizer Hardeep Singh Nijjar Seeks PM Trudeau’s Help For Persecution By India!

“Indian authorities often label Sikh activists as terrorists, who are simply trying to raise awareness in Canada about human rights violations being committed against Sikhs in the Punjab,” said US-based Sikhs for Justice head Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, who is also representing accused Surrey-based Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar.

VANCOUVER – Is India insulting Canada and disgracing itself with this bogus Sikh terror camp news planted by Indian intelligence agencies in major Indian newspapers or is this another attempt to simply taint the wider Sikh community by insidious forces within India.

How else do you explain this nonsense?

Meanwhile the Surrey man accused of allegedly training Sikh terrorists at a training camp in Mission British Columbia has written to the prime minister Justin Trudeau asking for help to clear his name.

The Times of India, which along with other Indian major daily newspaper are known to run paid news and other political propaganda, made headlines this week reports that Indian intelligence agencies have alerted the Liberal government that pro-Khalistan extremists near Mission plan to carry out strikes in Punjab.

“This is garbage — all the allegations. I am living here 20 years, right? Look at my record. There is nothing. I am a hard-worker. I own my own business in the plumbing,” Hardeep Singh Nijjar of Surrey told the Vancouver Sun Monday in a phone interview.

“I am very, very shocked. My family and me are very shocked.”

Nijjar, who has no criminal history in B.C., confirmed to The Canadian Press that he sent a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, which asks the federal government to dispel “fabricated, baseless, fictitious and politically motivated” allegations against him.

“I have never believed in, supported or been involved with any violent activity,” he wrote.

The letter said Nijjar’s work campaigning against anti-Sikh violence in Punjab has made him a target of the Indian government and led to authorities placing his name on Interpol’s wanted list.

He said the Indian government has previously accused him of transporting ammunition through paragliding, an allegation that he described as “absolutely preposterous” and “more like a bad Bollywood movie plot.”

The letter said that Nijjar is a Canadian citizen who operates a small plumbing business to support his wife, two children and parents, and that he has spent years collecting signatures for a complaint the UN Human Rights Council on anti-Sikh violence, reported Canadian Press.

“Prime Minister Trudeau, my Sikh nationalist activities are peaceful, democratic and protected under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms,” the letter said.

When reached by The Canadian Press, Nijjar declined to comment on the allegations made against him in Indian media, referring all questions to his lawyer in New York.

His lawyer could not be reached but in a statement released by Sikhs for Justice his legal counsel said Nijjar has been falsely accused.

“Indian authorities often label Sikh activists as terrorists, who are simply trying to raise awareness in Canada about human rights violations being committed against Sikhs in the Punjab,” Gurpatwant Singh Pannun said in the statement.

A spokesman for the Prime Minister’s Office declined comment on the letter, saying the office had not yet had time to review it.