India Rejects Ontario Assembly Motion Terming 1984 Sikh Riots a Genocide

© AFP 2023Sikhs militant throw a tear gas canister back at indian police after it was fired to breakup violence around the Gurdwara Bangla Sahib, also known as Golden Temple, for the second day on June 07, 1984, as the news of death of the Sikh leader Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale in Amritsar, Punjab.
Sikhs militant throw a tear gas canister back at indian police after it was fired to breakup violence around the Gurdwara Bangla Sahib, also known as Golden Temple, for the second day on June 07, 1984, as the news of death of the Sikh leader Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale in Amritsar, Punjab. - Sputnik International
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India has termed the passage of a private member's motion in the legislative assembly of Ontario as "misguided" since it extended official recognition to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots as a genocide in India.

NEW DELHI (Sputnik) — The Private Member's Motion in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario was moved by Harinder Malhi, a Member of the Provincial Parliament of the ruling Liberal Party of Ontario.

"We have noted the passage of a Private Member's Motion in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario on April 6. We reject this misguided motion which is based on a limited understanding of India, its constitution, society, ethos, rule of law and judicial process," Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Gopal Baglay said today.

"Our views have been conveyed to the Government and political leadership in Canada," he added.

​The motion by Harinder Malhi, an Indian-origin politician, read, "The Legislative Assembly of Ontario should reaffirm our commitment to the values we cherish — justice, human rights and fairness — and condemn all forms of communal violence, hatred, hostility, prejudice, racism and intolerance in India and anywhere in the world, including the 1984 genocide perpetrated against Sikhs throughout India, and call on all sided to embrace truth, justice and reconciliation." 

There was mass violence all over India against Sikhs soon after the assassination of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by her Sikhs bodyguards on October 31, 1984.

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