India on Thursday rejected Canadian Prime Minister Justine Trudeau’s allegations over India’s alleged role of Indian government agents in the 2023 assassination of Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, saying the Canadian government had no provided any information since September 2023.

On Wednesday, Trudeau testified before the inquiry into the country’s foreign interference amid the escalating diplomatic row between India and Canada, during which the prime minister acknowledged he had no ” “strong evidence” and that he only had information when Canada alleged the involvement of Indian government agents last year. in the murder of Nijjar.

Speaking to the media on Thursday on the issue, MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said, “We have made our stand very clear on this particular issue. Since September 2023, the Canadian government has not shared any information with us. Yesterday, again, after the public inquiry, again the public hearing, issued a statement saying that Canada had made serious allegations but had so far provided no evidence to support its allegations…in As for the allegations, Prime Minister Trudeau’s own admissions yesterday would indicate the merit of these allegations. As for our position…we reject false imputations against our diplomats.”

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“We had summoned the Acting High Commissioner of Canada and then made it known to him that we had no confidence that the Canadian government would ensure the safety of our diplomats and, therefore, we had taken the decision to withdraw our high commissioner and five other diplomats with him. Subsequently, we saw that there was a communication from the Canadian side asking them to leave, but we had withdrawn our diplomats before their decision. he declared.

Talking about India-Canada relations, he said that the economic ties between the two countries are very strong and vibrant. “We have a large Indian diaspora in Canada, which provides a bridge through which we maintain strong people-to-people ties with Canada. We also probably have the largest cohort of international students in Canada. This particular crisis was precipitated by baseless allegations from the Trudeau government. This is how we see the future of the relationship,” he added.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau also admitted on Wednesday that he had not presented concrete evidence to India over the assassination of Hardeep Singh Nijjar on Canadian soil and said he had only shared intelligence before publicly accuse India of being involved in the assassination of the Khalistan separatist.

Nijjar was fatally shot in his van in June 2023 after leaving the Sikh temple he led in the city of Surrey, British Columbia.

The diplomatic dispute intensified when Canada named High Commissioner Sanjay Verma and other Indian diplomats in Ottawa as “persons of interest”, accusing them of being involved in Nijjar’s assassination last September.