{"id":58793,"date":"2023-09-28T08:59:46","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T23:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/28\/canada-assassination-claim-sparks-rare-consensus-in-indias-polarised-politics-and-media"},"modified":"2023-09-28T08:59:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T23:59:46","slug":"canada-assassination-claim-sparks-rare-consensus-in-indias-polarised-politics-and-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58793","title":{"rendered":"Canada assassination claim sparks rare consensus in India\u2019s polarised politics and media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News anchors, political commentators and even the opposition furiously condemn accusations India played a role in assassination of Sikh activist<\/p>\n<p>When Justin Trudeau stood up in Canadian parliament last week to announce there were \u201ccredible allegations\u201d that agents linked to the Indian government had been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/27\/canada-sikh-india-khalistan-hardeep-singh-nijjar\">involved in the assassination of a Sikh activist<\/a> in a suburb of Vancouver, it sent reverberations across the world.<\/p>\n<p>Countries from the US to the UK <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/23\/india-canada-row-blinken-calls-on-delhi-to-cooperate-in-push-for-accountability-over-killing\">expressed concern at the allegations<\/a>, urging India to cooperate with the investigation. Inside India, the response was defiant. The government called the allegations \u201cabsurd\u201d and politically motivated and attempted to turn the tables, accusing Canada of being a rogue state that is a \u201csafe haven for terrorists\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/28\/canada-assassination-claim-sparks-rare-consensus-in-indias-polarised-politics-and-media\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News anchors, political commentators and even the opposition furiously condemn accusations India played a role in assassination of Sikh activistWhen Justin Trudeau stood up in Canadian parliament last week to announce there were \u201ccredible allegations\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[246,244,62,1282,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-canada","category-india","category-sikhism","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58794,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58793\/revisions\/58794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}