Launching a scathing attack on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, former Canadian minister Ujjal Dosanjh said he is "sociologically and politically" an "idiot" who has never truly understood that the vast majority of Sikhs are quite secular in their outlook and want nothing to do with Khalistan.
A Sikh himself and former federal cabinet minister under Prime Minister Paul Martin, Dosanjh in a column for Canadian newspaper on Sunday argued that Trudeau's approach has empowered Khalistani extremists and created fear among moderate Sikhs.
The 78-year-old former NDP premier of British Columbia blamed Trudeau of being responsible for what the column describes as the Canadian Sikh population, the largest Sikh diaspora in the world, being "co-opted by the Khalistanis to the point where this obscure separatist movement has become a Canadian problem".
“A silent majority of the Sikhs do not want to have anything to do with Khalistan. They just don’t speak out because they’re afraid of violence and violent repercussions,” he asserted.
Dosanjh said Trudeau "never really understood the vast majority of Sikhs are quite secular in their outlook, despite the fact that they go to the temple”.
“Khalistani supporters control many of the temples in Canada. And it’s Trudeau’s fault, Dosanjh said, “that Canadians now equate Khalistanis with Sikhs, as if we are all Khalistanis if we’re Sikhs”.
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