Liberal MP Chandra Arya is accusing his caucus colleague Sukh Dhaliwal of threatening him within the Home of Commons on Friday.
The incident allegedly passed off after Dhaliwal, MP for Surrey—Newton in B.C., tried to get unanimous consent from the Home on a movement to sentence the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in India as “genocide.”
Numerous MPs — together with Arya, who represents the Ontario using of Nepean — known as out “no” earlier than Dhaliwal was capable of end studying his movement, denying it unanimous assist. Arya later claimed he was the one one to say “no.”
About 20 minutes later, Arya stood up within the Home on a degree of order and stated Dhaliwal “threatened” him on his means out of the Commons chamber. He additionally stated one other unnamed MP “aggressively accosted” him within the foyer.
“As a member of Parliament, I ought to be capable of specific my opinion, my views, freely within the Home and I mustn’t [feel] threatened by any phrases or actions of my fellow members,” Arya stated.
CBC Information has reached out to each Arya and Dhaliwal for clarification on what occurred Friday, however neither has responded.
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Liberal MP accuses fellow caucus member of threatening him
Within the Home of Commons on Friday, Chandra Arya accused his caucus colleague Sukh Dhaliwal of threatening him and one other unnamed MP of accosting him.
Greater than 3,000 Sikhs died within the anti-Sikh riots that adopted the assassination of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by her two Sikh bodyguards. The Indian authorities has constantly rejected any push to acknowledge the anti-Sikh riots as a genocide and has stated it estimates the loss of life toll at 2,800.
Dhaliwal later posted on X, previously Twitter, about his movement, saying that “sadly, some Conservative MPs and one Liberal MP opposed it.”
Arya additionally posted concerning the Home incident on X, calling on Hindu-Canadians to push their MPs to oppose such “divisive” motions.
“There is no such thing as a assure I might be within the Home to dam it the following time another Member, from any political occasion, makes an attempt to deliver this movement ahead,” Arya wrote in his social media submit.
“I urge all Hindu-Canadians to behave now.”
Friday’s incident comes at a time of heightened tensions between the Sikh and Hindu communities in Canada. Final month, three males had been charged after violent clashes passed off between protestors in Brampton and Mississauga, together with incidents exterior a Hindu temple and Sikh gurdwara.
Liberal MP Sukh Dhaliwal tried to introduce a movement on Friday that known as on the Home to to sentence the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in India as a “genocide.” (Murray Titus/CBC)
Arya has been an outspoken advocate for the Hindu neighborhood and has constantly spoken out towards what he calls “Khalistani extremists” — a reference to a motion pushing for an impartial Sikh homeland in northern India.
In August, Arya travelled to India and met with present Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
A press release from World Affairs Canada on the time stated Arya “travelled to India on his personal initiative and was not representing the Authorities of Canada.”
Hindu nationalism has turn into the dominant political ideology in India prior to now decade beneath Modi, whose occasion has been accused of aggravating spiritual fault strains and steadily eroding the secular ideas enshrined in India’s structure.
