Canadian envoy on posters of Indira Gandhi's assassination put up in Brampton

New Delhi: Canadian High Commissioner to India, Cameron MacKay on Tuesday said that "promotion of violence" is "never acceptable" in Canada.

"The Government of Canada is aware of further imagery displayed in Brampton on Sunday. Canada's position is clear: The promotion of violence is never acceptable in Canada," Canadian envoy MacKay posted on X today.

The envoy's remarks came in the wake of a recent incident in Brampton, Canada, in which Khalistani extremists put up imagery to glorify the assassination of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

Ties between New Delhi and Ottawa had soured due to a row over Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's allegation that India was involved in the incident in which Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar was shot to death in British Columbia in June last year.

India has repeatedly accused Canada of giving a free hand to the extremists and not acting against the incidents of Khalistani extremism.

Earlier, Canadian Public Safety Minister Dominic Leblanc had in a similar statement denounced promoting violence, which he said is never acceptable in his country.

(ANI)