Go back to ‘motherland’ India, says Pannun after Canada Hindu MP talks of temple vandalism

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New Delhi:India-designated terrorist and Khalistan separatist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun has said that Hindus in Canada must move back to India as they were working against Canadian values whereas only Khalistan Sikhs were loyal to the country...

The US-based Pannun railed in a video that Hindu Canadian Member of Parliament from the Liberal Party, Chandra Arya, had no place in Canada after the politician highlighted the case of another temple vandalised in the country...

The Khalistan separatist is the founder of Sikhs For Justice (SFJ), which is designated a terrorist organisation by India, andhas a history of putting out videosthreatening the Hindu community in Canada and calling for their return to India...

In response to my condemnation of the vandalism of the Hindu temple BAPS Swaminarayan Mandir in Edmonton and other acts of hate and violence by Khalistan supporters in Canada, Gurpatwant Singh Pannun of Sikhs For Justice has released a video demanding me and my Hindu-Canadian friends to go back to India, Arya said on X...

Arya raised this issue on social media, posting that Hindu-Canadians are legitimately concerned on how Khalistani extremists were able to get away with ease with their public rhetoric of hate and violence...

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