Ottawa: The pro-Khalistan radical groups in Canada took assassination floats recently paying “homage” to the suicide bomber responsible for the killing of then Punjab chief minister Beant Singh in 1995. The floats, which were taken out to the Indian consulate in Vancouver, depicted the assassination in a bombed car splattered with blood, with the slain CM’s photographs.
“Beant Bombed to Death”, the float read, while also paying homage to his killer Dilawar Singh Babbar, the suicide bomber. The assassination took place on August 31, 1995. That suicide bombing in Chandigarh killed a total of 17 people. The terrorist organization Babbar Khalsa International had claimed responsibility for the attack. The group is on the list of Canada’s proscribed terrorist entities.
Another rally was held in Toronto led by Inderjeet Singh Gosal, who described campaigners for the so-called “Khalistan Referendum” as “offspring” of Dilawar Singh. Gosal, one of the principal organizers of the referendum and an associate of Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) general counsel Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, had in August received a verbal “duty to warn” from Canadian law enforcement about a threat to his life.
On June 9, a parade in Brampton in the Greater Toronto Area or GTA, included a float that featured an effigy of Indira Gandhi as she was being fired upon by her bodyguards. It also featured posters stating her “punishment” had been “delivered” on October 31, 1984, the date of the assassination. (Hindustan Times)
