BJP leader Amit Malviya on Thursday referred to a historic diplomatic achievement from the recent Canadian visit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, highlighting a significant change in Ottawa's position: its very first formal acknowledgment of Khalistani extremists based out of Canadian soil to foment terrorism in India.
Malviya underscored this evolution in a social media post, where he posted an excerpt from a Canadian intelligence report that recognized the existence and activities of anti-India elements. "The first time 'extremism' has been officially used by Canada with respect to Khalistanis," he pointed out.
BJP IT cell head said this as Prime Minister Modi returned from his three-nation tour and came back home after visiting the 2025 G7 Summit. Malviya portrayed the scene as unprecedented: "For the first time ever, Canada's top intelligence agency – Canadian Security Intelligence Service – has officially confirmed that Khalistani extremists are exploiting Canadian territory to support, raise funds for, and plan violence in India."
Crediting India's diplomatic work and the Modi government's sustained pressure, Malviya stated that the Canadian intelligence report is a major breakthrough. "The agency's new report unequivocally says: 'Khalistani extremists continue to use Canada as a base for the promotion, fundraising or planning of violence primarily in India,'" he quoted.
Malviya further noted that for years, New Delhi had raised the red flag on the issue, but nothing much had been done by Canadian authorities. "This is a big acknowledgment. Even as years went by after India started raising concerns, Canada had more or less turned a blind eye. But now its own intelligence verifies what New Delhi has all along asserted – Canada has emerged as a haven for anti-India elements," he said.
Reiterating the significance of Canada's shift in vocabulary, Malviya stated, "Even more revealing – this is the first time that the word 'extremism' has been officially applied by Canada to Khalistanis." His statement came a day after Prime Minister Modi met Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on the sidelines of the G7 Summit.
This shift is particularly noteworthy given India’s repeated diplomatic efforts to flag the activities of Khalistani extremists in Canada — efforts that had previously been met with inaction, especially under former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's administration, which was often accused of ignoring the issue.
In his X (formerly Twitter) post, Malviya provided a part of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) report. The passage stated: "Since the mid-1980s, the threat of politically motivated violent extremism (PMVE) in Canada has emerged mainly in the form of Canada-based Khalistani extremists (CBKEs) aiming to utilize and leverage violent tactics to establish an independent country state of Khalistan, mainly in Punjab in India."
The report also outlined the character of this threat: "PMVE promotes the recourse to violence to build new political regimes or new structures or standards in current ones. PMVE actors plan, finance and organize attacks, worldwide, to build new political regimes or entities."
This recognition, viewed as a vindication of India's long-standing grievances, is being touted by the BJP as a major diplomatic victory — one that could redefine Indo-Canadian relations in the future.
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