India, Feb. 19 -- An Indo-Canadian candidate running in the Ontario provincial election has issued a public apology after offensive social media posts attributed to him came to light.

These posts related to the killing of pro-Khalistan figure Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Surrey, British Columbia, on June 18, 2023, and a homophobic slur against Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Viresh Bansal, the Liberal Party candidate from the riding of Oshawa, made these comments in 2023, though his X and Facebook accounts now appear to have been sanitized.

On Tuesday, Bansal issued the apology, through a post on X, in which he said, "I deeply regret the hurtful and thoughtless comments I posted on Twitter in the heat of the moment. I want to sincer...