Joe Biden Expressed Concern To Modi Over Canadian Sikh Separatists Murder

US President Biden and other leaders made their concerns known at the summit after Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau urged allies to intervene directly with Modi, the newspaper reported.

As per the report Canadian government claims that New Delhi was involved in the murder of a Sikh separatist leader in Canada and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a summit G20 about this claim. The summit was held in India days before Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made his allegations public in an address to the Canadian parliament earlier this week. The leaders intervened at the G20 summit after Canada urged its allies to raise the case directly with Modi, the newspaper reported.

The U.S. is in touch with Indians at high levels after Ottawa said Indian government agents had links to the murder of a Sikh separatist leader in Canada, and Washington is giving India no “special exemption” in the matter, U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Thursday. Experts say that even if Biden did raise the issue at G20, the fact that Washington has refrained from getting in on the controversy so far, suggests that Ottawa was left hanging.

“It is a matter of concern for us. It is something we take seriously. It is something we will keep working on, and we will do that regardless of the country…There’s not some special exemption you get for actions like this. Regardless of the country, we will stand up and defend our basic principles and we will also consult closely with allies like Canada as they pursue their law enforcement and diplomatic process.” Sullivan told reporters at the White House.

His briefing came even as it was reported that visiting US President Joe Biden discussed the matter with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his trip to New Delhi earlier this month to attend the G20 Summit.