eos
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« on: September 26, 2023, 04:05:22 AM » |
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The ruling BJP and opposition INC are both nationalist parties. INC is left-wing nationalist, no different to many left-wing nationalists in the "global south". The present Indian government would have been under more internal pressure if Canada explicitly attacked Modi/BJP for something like "fascism", which could have motivated the opposition to take up the issue for domestic political reasons. Framing the incident in terms of "India's misdeed" means this is not going to happen now.
On the other hand, the Khalistani aspect means that this incident was never going to pass muster with INC anyway. Khalistan has a special meaning to INC, which sees itself as having confronted a major threat to India's territorial integrity in the 1980s and 1990s. For domestic reasons, BJP was conversely soft/silent on Khalistani militancy and attacked INC governments for presiding over human rights violations in military operations against Khalistani militants. Of course, BJP also has a substantial number of Likud type secular cultural nationalist conservatives who greatly dislike Khalistani nationalism and those within BJP that want to integrate Sikh nationalist grievances as a political discourse against INC.
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