> A Hindu nationalist, Shah is a close confidant of Modi’s and helped secure the 2014 election victory that brought him and his Bharatiya Janata Party to power.
>Shah was serving as home minister of Gujarat state when he was arrested in 2010 for the kidnapping and killing of a Muslim couple.
>He denied it and, after three months in custody, was acquitted in 2014 and rose within the ranks of the BJP along with Modi.
>He became Modi’s home minister in 2019, putting him in charge of internal security.
The BJP website credits him with reducing terrorism incidents “to sporadic incidences.”
>According to his profile on the BJP site, Shah “considers weak and lumpy security to be a major obstacle in the development of society, country and state.”
> But he is also alleged to have signed off on the operation that targeted pro-Khalistan activists in Canada, even as India denies the allegations.
> In a statement Monday, the Indian government said it “strongly rejects these preposterous imputations and ascribes them to the political agenda of the Trudeau Government that is centered around vote bank politics.”
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If Iran committed these kinds of crimes, including killing Americans on US soil, that would be considered an act of war.
India not only kills Canadians on Canadian soil, but extorts, intimidates, and coerces them too.
Precedent needs to be set. Countries can’t just go around killing citizens of a different country without appropriate consequences.
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> ###“It goes right to Modi’s right-hand man.”
> A Hindu nationalist, Shah is a close confidant of Modi’s and helped secure the 2014 election victory that brought him and his Bharatiya Janata Party to power.
>Shah was serving as home minister of Gujarat state when he was arrested in 2010 for the kidnapping and killing of a Muslim couple.
>He denied it and, after three months in custody, was acquitted in 2014 and rose within the ranks of the BJP along with Modi.
>He became Modi’s home minister in 2019, putting him in charge of internal security.
The BJP website credits him with reducing terrorism incidents “to sporadic incidences.”
>According to his profile on the BJP site, Shah “considers weak and lumpy security to be a major obstacle in the development of society, country and state.”
> But he is also alleged to have signed off on the operation that targeted pro-Khalistan activists in Canada, even as India denies the allegations.
> In a statement Monday, the Indian government said it “strongly rejects these preposterous imputations and ascribes them to the political agenda of the Trudeau Government that is centered around vote bank politics.”
If Iran committed these kinds of crimes, including killing Americans on US soil, that would be considered an act of war.
India not only kills Canadians on Canadian soil, but extorts, intimidates, and coerces them too.
Precedent needs to be set. Countries can’t just go around killing citizens of a different country without appropriate consequences.
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