Dr S Jaishankar, known for aggressively defending India's foreign policy at international fora and elsewhere, said there will be pushback against what is happening "out there". He said “Newton's law of politics” will apply in reference to developments in Canada.
"The point that they need to understand, it is no longer a world that runs as a one-way street. If there are things that happen out there, there will be pushback. Newton's law of politics will apply there also. There will be a reaction. Others will take steps or counter it," S Jaishankar said.
“....But we will become a member (permanent UNSC member) faster if we have a strong Prime Minister to whom the world cannot say no.
And that is what we are trying to do,” External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar asserted.
Earlier this year, Dr Jaishankar had stressed growing global support for India’s permanent membership at the United Nations Security Council while asserting sometimes things are not given generously, and one has to seize them.
“This is a very difficult period. And more important, who do you trust? Who do you want to see in charge of this country? Who do you think will take this country through this challenge? And you asked about Security Council. I have confidence we will become a member,” the Minister said during an interactive session in Odisha’s Cuttack.
Hitting out at Pakistan, Jaishankar said, “...Till the Modi government came we were tolerating it. We were turning the other cheek. We were not acting. After Modi ji came, things have changed. You saw Uri, Balakot.
So we have made it very clear today that any threat of terrorism, cross border terrorism which comes from Pakistan will get the appropriate response from India...".
"In the last four years an attempt has been made to put pressure on us by bringing a lot of troops to the Line of Actual Control. We have very strongly countered it. Today thousands of troops of the Indian Army are on deployment in the line of LAC alongside China. We are very clear, we are there, we are strong, we are deployed.
Any action we have to take as per circumstances our armed forces will naturally be the best judge of it. When it comes to national security, the Modi government will never make a compromise..." Jaishankar said.
Addressing an electoral rally in Jharkhand's Palamu, PM Narendra Modi said, "Maa Bharati's disrespect won't be tolerated anymore. New India's surgical and air strikes shook Pakistan, which was known for supporting terror attacks on India during the Congress regime.
“The new India knows how to enter enemy territory and strike... Shaken by the surgical and air strikes, leaders in Pakistan are now praying that the Congress ‘shehzada’ becomes PM of India... But, our strong nation wants a strong government and leader," Modi said.
“It is their political compulsion in Canada to blame India,” Jaishankar said.
Canada’s investigation into alleged Indian involvement in the killing of a Sikh separatist in Vancouver last year is a “political compulsion”, New Delhi’s foreign minister said after three Indian citizens were arrested over the killing.
Canadian police on Friday arrested the trio for the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, saying they were investigating their links to the Indian government, “if any”.
The killing sent diplomatic relations between Ottawa and New Delhi into a tailspin last autumn after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said there were “credible allegations” linking Indian intelligence to the crime.
New Delhi has sought to persuade Ottawa not to grant Sikh separatists visas or political legitimacy, Jaishankar said, since they are “causing problems for them (Canada), for us and also for our relationship”. He added that Canada does not “share any evidence with us in certain cases, police agencies also do not cooperate with us”.
Nijjar immigrated to Canada in 1997 and acquired citizenship 18 years later. He was wanted by Indian authorities for alleged terrorism and conspiracy to commit murder. The three arrested Indian nationals, all in their twenties, were charged with first-degree murder and conspiracy.
They were accused of being the shooter, driver and lookout in his killing last June. The Canadian police said they were aware that “others may have played a role” in the murder.
In November, the US Justice Department charged an Indian citizen living in the Czech Republic with plotting a similar assassination attempt on another Sikh separatist leader on American soil.
A Washington Post investigation reported last week that Indian foreign intelligence officials were involved in the plot, a claim rejected by New Delhi.
"But, as I said, one of our concerns which we have been telling them is that, you know, they have allowed organised crime from India, specifically from Punjab, to operate in Canada," the minister added.
Canadian police on Friday arrested three members of an alleged hit squad linked to the murder of Nijjar in British Columbia last year.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) named the three men as Karanpreet Singh, 28, Kamalpreet Singh, 22 and Karan Brar, 22. All three were living in Edmonton, Alberta, where they were taken into custody.
"We're investigating their ties, if any, to the Indian government," RCMP Superintendent Mandeep Mooker said at a press conference.
The trio has been charged with first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder, according to court records. They had been in Canada for three to five years. Investigations are ongoing, with Assistant Commissioner David Teboul confirming that there are separate and distinct investigations underway, not limited to the involvement of the individuals arrested.
"Our biggest problem right now is in Canada. Because in Canada, actually, today the party in power in Canada, and other parties in Canada have given these kinds of extremism, separatism, and advocates of violence a certain legitimacy in the name of free speech. See, when you tell them something, their answer is no no we are a democratic country but it is free speech," S Jaishankar said, ANI reported.
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