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Diplomatic relations between India and Canada worsened on Tuesday the 19th of September after India announced expelling top Canadian official posted in New Delhi soon after being provoked by Ottawa.

The Canada’s prime minister Justin Trudeau had levelled a serious allegation on the floor of Canadian Parliament stating that India is behind the killing of Khalistan Tiger Force chief Hardeep Singh Nijjar.

Nijjar was killed at the point blank range just outside a Sikh gurdwara in Canada in June earlier this year.

He was a terrorists wanted by the India and was declared as ‘absconder’ by the NIA – the National Investigation Agency.

In a strongly worded statement issued by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) condemned Canada’s action.

Soon after the first statement, the MEA formally announced expelling one of the senior diplomat posted in the New Delhi.

Later in the day the news agency ANI reported that Trudeau was seen on CBS news attempting to diffuse the tense situation that he had apparently created.
Trudeau said that Canada is not trying to provoke India by any means.
“We are not looking to provoke or escalate. We are simply laying out the facts as we understand them,” the Canadian Prime Minister told reporters, according to CBC news.

Trudeau on Monday (US local time) 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.