Jalandhar: Punjabis in Canada have rejected the Khalistani movement, claimed Rachna Singh, MLA (member legislative assembly) Surrey-Green Timbers in British Columbia on Sunday in the city.

Jalandhar: Punjabis in Canada have rejected the Khalistani movement, claimed Rachna Singh, MLA (member legislative assembly) Surrey-Green Timbers in British Columbia on Sunday in the city.

Rachna, during a press conference, said that the wounds of 1984-riots were still fresh in her memory, but it could be connected with the Khalistani movement.

Rachna had made her mark in Canada by winning the legislative elections from British Columbia’s Surrey-Green Timbers assembly segment as a New Democratic Party (NDP) candidate in May.

“In some gurdwaras in Canada, pictures of radicals had been removed,” she said.

On recent lynching incidents in the country, she said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi should come down hard on people who did this as there were human rights violations in the country.

“Development in a country depended upon equal distribution of wealth among all sections of the society,” she said, adding that Donald Trump had become the US president, hate crime had seen a steep hike and governments must come forward to stop such incidents.