Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) national secretary Tejinder Pall Singh Bagga on Monday made a sensational claim, saying killed Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar was gay and that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau used to like him.

His statement comes amid a diplomatic standoff between India and Canada that ensued after Trudeau alleged the Indian government was involved in Nijjar’s killing. India has asked Canada to provide proof to back the allegations but none have come yet.

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      Fair chance it’s true, irrespective of why Canada is risking their trade and global relationship. They probably wouldn’t accuse without intelligence.

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        My understanding is that a reporter was going to break the story. The evidence wasn’t just from Canadian intelligence either.

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    Like, like like himwink wink

    because fuck yeah, that’ll show the world just how not into political murder. call 'em gay for each other. works every time.

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          India is the world’s biggest democracy. It’s the birthplace of four major religions, Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism and Jainism, and has one of the world’s largest populations of Muslims. It has 23 official languages.

          The fact that it’s even still a country is a miracle of democracy (and cricket).

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            Could be. I don’t know. Different democracy indices set it even below the fake democracy in the US 🤷

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              The Economist ranks it on par with Poland, which is a member of the EU.

              The downgrading of India’s democracy is basically related to the rise of Hindu nationalism, especially under Modi, and the suppression of freedoms of speech and religion. These are serious and concerning issues, to be sure, but like I mentioned, India is a diverse country and the fact that these tensions have been kept in check for so long is the real surprise. Even Sweden is buckling under the pressure of a (relatively) tiny influx of racial/religious diversity.

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    Ok I’m a little behind on this story. Why did Trudeau say India was involved?

    And what the fuck, India? Grow up.

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      this story is still developing, but only badly. so far, it is not clear, but some part of India was probably involved, not sure it implicates the PM Modi or his underlings.

      but yeah, Modi looks like is a murderous tyrant, history is stacking up against him

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          Uhuh… The BBC recently released a documentary about this very shady past (specifically about the Gujarat riots, where he was accused of ethnic cleansing against Muslims). Guess what… This documentary was immediately banned country wide by the Indian government and designated as “foreign propaganda”.

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      The US has admitted that the five eyes intelligence sharing played a part.

      Canada is claiming to have Indian government communiques and signal intelligence backing them up.

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      Propaganda is not there to make you agree with it, it is there to tell you that you are powerless against it

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        that’s interesting. i’d wager propaganda only works that way when it’s winning. but that’s difficult to gauge these days. propaganda is more segmented and social media is more “federated”. hell, trump’s social bs exists via mastodon.