The Bharatiya Janata Party launched an attack on Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over his post with Punjabi singer Diljit Dosanjh in which he praised the actor but mentioned his association only with Punjab and not with India.
PM Trudeau made a surprise entry ahead of his performance at Rogers Centre, a stadium in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada on Sunday.
Trudeau turns up on social media and showers praise on Diljit, saying, “That’s what it means to be Canadian, where a guy from Punjab can make history and sell out stadiums.”.
“Stopped by the Rogers Centre to wish @diljitdosanjh good luck before his show. Canada is a great country — one where a guy from Punjab can make history and sell out stadiums. Diversity isn’t just our strength. It’s a superpower,” says the Canadian PM.
BJP leader Manjinder Singh Sirsa hit out at Trudeau, saying that he did not take the name of India, and rather was an insult to the position he held.
“The concert of Diljit Dosanjh was good. The picture posted by Canadian PM Justin Trudeau with Diljit made us all feel very proud. Later when he expressed his feelings for Diljit Dosanjh, he did not even think that it was right to take the name of India. A Prime Minister should not have done this as a post. Prime Minister has a very big dignity. He should have maintained that dignity and tweeted accordingly,” Sirsa said in a video message.
He also reacted to Trudeau’s post earlier and called it a “deliberate mischief through wordplay.”
“Let me correct this, Mr. Prime Minister- where one guy from INDIA can make history and sell out stadiums. Your gesture of lauding a fantastic artist like @diljitdosanjh has been totally overshadowed by your deliberate mischief through wordplay,” Sirsa said on X.
Meanwhile, actor-singer Diljit Dosanjh is performing with tours across the globe that keep his fans enthralled.