Overseas Secretary Vikram Misri briefs parliamentary panel on Canada, China

Overseas Secretary Vikram Misri. File
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A day after Exterior Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar made a suo motu assertion in Parliament on the disengagement course of with China, the Ministry of Exterior Affairs (MEA) briefed a parliamentary panel on China and Canada.

One other assembly of the parliamentary panel is probably going on December 11 the place the federal government is predicted to transient on the newest state of affairs in Bangladesh.

Overseas Secretary Vikram Misri is scheduled to go to Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka on December 10 amid rising issues over focused assaults on Hindus within the nation.

On Wednesday, sources instructed The Hindu, Mr. Misri gave an in depth presentation to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Exterior Affairs on the disengagement course of with China in Ladakh.

Echoing the Exterior Affairs Minister, Mr. Misri instructed the panel that the method had progressed effectively up to now.

The Parliamentary Committee’s Chairman and Congress MP Shashi Tharoor in addition to different Opposition MPs had a number of questions for the Overseas Secretary on China.

“Sure, the Opposition had a number of questions however the assembly happened in a cordial method,” a BJP MP mentioned.

‘Unfriendly insurance policies’

On frosty relations with Canada, the Overseas Secretary blamed the Canadian authorities’s “unfriendly insurance policies” for the souring of relations with India.

Referring to Canada’s allegation of Indian involvement within the homicide of Khalistani activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, Mr. Misri mentioned the Canadian authorities had not been in a position to produce any proof to again its cost.

The committee members have been knowledgeable that Khalistani parts have been energetic in a couple of different international locations as effectively, however the native governments didn’t present the sort of safety that Canada does. That’s the reason the Khalistani teams have discovered a protected area to hold out anti-India campaigns from Canadian soil.

With some MPs demanding a briefing on the state of affairs in Bangladesh, particularly within the aftermath of the deposition of the Sheikh Hasina authorities, the committee is prone to meet on December 11.

The problem of focusing on of Hindus in Bangladesh, who make up 8% of the nation’s inhabitants of 170 million, has surfaced within the proceedings of the Lok Sabha up to now two days.

BJP MPs Anil Firojiya, Hema Malini and Dilip Saikia, raised the problem within the Lok Sabha throughout Zero Hour on Wednesday.

Mr. Firojiya urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to intervene to make sure justice to ISKCON monk Chinmoy Krishna Das, who has been jailed in Bangladesh on costs of sedition.