Over 200,000 Canadian Sikhs voted in the Khalistan Referendum held in Surrey British Columbia dedicated to Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar who was assassinated by Indian agents on June 18 outside the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara of which he was the president.
After the October 29 voting, Sikhs For Justice (SFJ) General Counsel Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, in a virtual address, said that Nijjar’s murder had exposed India as a terror-sponsoring state before the whole world.
“Over 60,000 strong turn out of voters in Phase II defied Narendra Modi government’s terror tactics to stop the Khalistan Referendum voting by stopping visas, canceling identity and travel cards and threats of singling out family members of Khalistan supporters in Punjab,” said Pannun.
An estimated 140,000 Canadian Sikhs had taken part in the first phase of the referendum at the same Gurdwara in September this year. However, thousands of people were unable to vote at the time so a second phase was held on October 29.
The SFJ also announced that it will organise a referendum voting in Abbotsford, Edmonton, Calgary, and Montreal next year but did not give a specific date for it.
