Canada's lawmakers slam SFJ for targeting Anand at protest
Toronto, Nov. 3 -- Canada's cabinet ministers have condemned the brazen targeting of minister of foreign affairs Anita Anand during a protest organised by the secessionist group Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) outside the Indian Consulate in Toronto on Friday.
As SFJ staged protests outside Indian's missions in Canada on Friday, what stood out was the targeting of Anand, who has been carrying out Prime Minister Mark Carney's policy of engaging with India as part of an overall attempt to diversify from the trade dependence on the United States.
Among the posters on display during a protest outside India's Consulate in Toronto on Friday was one showing Anand and late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. That was juxtaposed to a tableau showing the late PM's assassination. Another poster depicted Anand's meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi during her bilateral visit to India earlier this month.
The display, on the 41st anniversary of Indira's assassination, showed her being riddled with bullets fired by her bodyguards-turned-assassins Beant Singh and Satwant Singh, who were also depicted with guns pointed towards her, and at the poster morphed with Anand's image.
That portrayal drew a furious response on Saturday from Canada's minister of public safety Gary Anandasangaree, who posted, "A recent protest in Toronto showed two men shooting at the image of a federal minister - which is absolutely vile and unacceptable."...
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