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Capt Amarinder's letter to Canadian PM Justin Trudeau.....
"Dear Prime Minister Trudeau,
Today morning I was told by our Foreign Secretary, Dr S Jaishankar that your government has not allowed my public interactions during my proposed visit to your country, beginning tomorrow. I was scheduled to interact with the Punjabi diaspora living in the two cities of Toronto and Vancouver. Needless to say, it has come as a disappointment that someone representing the largest democracy in the world has been refused to reach out to, and interact with, his fellow Punjabis living in a respected democracy like Canada. It feels like a GAG ORDER that has left a very bad taste, more so when issued by a democratic government like the Canadian.
Let me give you my brief introduction. I am a former Chief Minister of the Indian state of Punjab. I am heading the Punjab state unit of the Congress party, one of the oldest and the largest political parties of the world in the largest democracy. I am a sitting parliamentarian representing the Holy City of Amritsar, the Mecca of Sikhs; the same Sikhs, some of whom you have inducted in your cabinet as ministers and towards whom you recently showed some nice gestures during the Baisakhi celebrations.
It is surprising and ironical that the refusal to allow me public interactions has come barely after a few weeks of your personally expressing regrets over the Komagata Maru tragedy.
Your government has invoked the provisions of some ‘Global Affairs Canada’ (GAC) policy that forbids “foreign governments to conduct election campaigns in Canada or establish foreign political parties and movements in Canada”.
Let me clarify that I have no intentions of carrying out any “election campaign” here, as there are no elections right now in Punjab. Nor do I have any plans to set up any “political party” or “movement in Canada”. Our country has already given us all such freedoms in letter and spirit and we really don’t need to carry out any such activities anywhere outside. And our country extends such freedoms to others as well and we don’t restrict it to our citizens alone as we believe that the freedom of expression is a universal right and should be respected by, and guaranteed to, one and all. Besides, as of now, I am not holding any government position and I do not represent any government.
Yes, I had planned to visit Canada to interact with my fellow Punjabis at personal level to learn about their experiences and seek their opinions. They, being the citizens of Canada, do not have any voting rights in India. Hence, there is no point in carrying out election campaign amongst them and that too when there are no elections scheduled in Punjab right now or in immediate future.
I hope, you will appreciate and agree that there is nothing “electoral” or “political” about these interactions. But, the way your government has reacted, it simply amounts to GAGGING SOMEONE and has left a suffocating bad taste, unheard of in any democracy, that I cannot talk to the people I feel like talking to, after travelling thousands of miles and crossing over the seven seas.
Just a reminder that I have visited Canada in 2005 when I was the Chief Minister of Punjab and addressed gatherings at Vancouver and Toronto, which were attended by the local premiers also. During the last one year, several political leaders including our Prime Minister Mr Narendra Modi and some opposition leaders also visited Canada and they addressed public functions and nobody objected. I am surprised as why have I been singled out for this “honour” of being denied a similar permission.
I believed and I still believe that the Canadian constitution under Section 2 guarantees some “Fundamental Freedoms” which also include, "freedom of expression", "freedom of peaceful assembly" and "freedom of association".
Your government’s GAG ORDER undermines these “Fundamental Freedoms”. After all it is not only I who has been denied these freedoms. Being an Indian citizen I have no claims to the freedoms you guarantee to your citizens. But this GAG ORDER has denied these freedoms of “expression”, “peaceful assembly” and “association”, to the Canadian citizens, who are the same people who have immensely contributed towards building up this beautiful country and you have yourself acknowledged that.
In fact these interactions and gatherings had been organised by the local Canadian citizens only and I was to be there as their, and also your, guest.
Best wishes.
Signed/
Capt Amarinder Singh,
President of the Punjab State unit of the Congress and the Deputy Leader of the Congress Party in the Parliament of India
Dated: April 21, 2016

Har Ik Da Satkaar, Kissan nu Vadh Baah Deeaygye, Capt Amarinder Singh nu Halka Sahnewal Jit Dawagye