After weeks of diplomatic tension between Canada and India over the killing of a Canadian-Indian Sikh leader in Canada, Indian official sources said on Wednesday, November 22 (first bracket) that the country will resume issuing electronic visas to Canadian citizens after a two-month hiatus. takes

Tension between Ottawa and New Delhi emerged after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused India of involvement in the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijar, a Sikh activist in Canada. India denied the allegation, calling it “ridiculous”.

The High Commission of India in Ottawa at the end of October said that the issuance of Indian visas to Canadians would be resumed, but online applications were not included.

The re-opening of electronic visa services on Wednesday hours before the meeting of the virtual 20 major economies of the world (G20) will be hosted by Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of India. Trudeau is also expected to participate in this meeting.

This is the first time that the leaders of the two countries are meeting each other after the differences over the killing of Nijar.

Before he was killed in June in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Nijar was charged with murder by the Indian government. However, Canada has said that Nijar has not committed a terrorist act against any teenager.

Nijar was killed when he wanted to launch an unofficial referendum on secession from India and the creation of an independent state called “Khalistan” for the Sikhs.

Canada announced last month that it is expelling 41 diplomats from India. Ottawa claimed that if India revoked diplomatic immunity for these diplomats, only 21 Canadian diplomats and their families would remain in India.

Meanwhile, the Indian government has also warned the citizens of the country and special students on September 20 (29 September) that if they plan to travel or stay in Canada, they will be “extremely careful”.

India accuses Canada of ignoring the activities of Sikh nationalists who are trying to establish a separate Sikh land in North India.

Canada has the largest Sikh population outside of India, and according to the 2021 census, the number of Sikhs in Canada will reach about 770,000.

Separatism and the struggle to establish Khalistan in the 1980s and 1990s resulted in bloody insurgency in India in which thousands of people, including high-ranking Indian officials, were killed. But this movement now has little support in Punjab.