<div align="justify">India has sternly conveyed its displeasure to Canada over a provincial assembly resolution, which described the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in India as a genocide.<br /><br />Defence Minister Arun Jaitley communicated this to his Canadian counterpart Harjit Singh Sajjan, during a delegation-level talks here.<br /><br />Jaitley told Sajjan, there was “considerable amount of disquiet in India” over the resolution as the language used in the document showed a “highly unreal and exaggerated analysis of the situation” in India.<br /><br />The resolution was a private members’ motion moved by Harinder Malhi, a member of Ontario provincial Parliament, near Toronto. It received support from 34 members.<br /><br />During the bilateral talks on Tuesday, Jaitley expressed the government’s concern over the resolution, which went against the spirit of the India-Canada relations.<br /><br />Sajjan, on his part explained that since it was a private member’s resolution, nothing much should be read in to it as local political factors are behind that motion.<br /><br />The resolution reflects <br />neither the views of the Canadian federal government nor the provincial government, said the visiting defence minister, who explored several ways to expand the defence cooperation between India and Canada.<br /></div>
<div align="justify">India has sternly conveyed its displeasure to Canada over a provincial assembly resolution, which described the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in India as a genocide.<br /><br />Defence Minister Arun Jaitley communicated this to his Canadian counterpart Harjit Singh Sajjan, during a delegation-level talks here.<br /><br />Jaitley told Sajjan, there was “considerable amount of disquiet in India” over the resolution as the language used in the document showed a “highly unreal and exaggerated analysis of the situation” in India.<br /><br />The resolution was a private members’ motion moved by Harinder Malhi, a member of Ontario provincial Parliament, near Toronto. It received support from 34 members.<br /><br />During the bilateral talks on Tuesday, Jaitley expressed the government’s concern over the resolution, which went against the spirit of the India-Canada relations.<br /><br />Sajjan, on his part explained that since it was a private member’s resolution, nothing much should be read in to it as local political factors are behind that motion.<br /><br />The resolution reflects <br />neither the views of the Canadian federal government nor the provincial government, said the visiting defence minister, who explored several ways to expand the defence cooperation between India and Canada.<br /></div>
