{"id":169713,"date":"2025-02-24T10:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T05:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=169713"},"modified":"2025-02-24T10:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T05:31:09","slug":"indian-origin-candidates-expelled-from-canadas-liberal-party-leadership-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2025\/02\/24\/indian-origin-candidates-expelled-from-canadas-liberal-party-leadership-race.html","title":{"rendered":"Indian-origin candidates expelled from Canada\u2019s Liberal Party leadership race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-169714\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/02\/Indian-origin-candidates-expelled-from-Canadas-Liberal-Party-leadership-race.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"721\" height=\"470\" \/>Toronto: Amid growing tensions between Canada and India after Canada accused India of carrying out assassination attempts on its citizens, three Indian-origin candidates\u2014Ruby Dhalla, Chandra Arya, and Viresh Bansal\u2014have been disqualified from the Liberal Party leadership race to become the next Prime Minister.<\/p>\n<p>The party cited allegations of anti-Sikh sentiments, homophobia, and support for foreign interference by India as reasons for their exclusion.<\/p>\n<p>The disqualification reflects Canada\u2019s concerns over India\u2019s growing influence in diaspora politics and its potential to fuel ethnic divisions abroad. Critics argue that India\u2019s Hindutva ideology is increasingly shaping global narratives, with allegations of meddling in democratic processes.<\/p>\n<p>Canada\u2019s decision underlines the challenges Western nations face in balancing diaspora engagement with safeguarding democratic integrity. These nations view India\u2019s alleged attempts to leverage its diaspora for nationalist agendas as a threat to democratic norms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto: Amid growing tensions between Canada and India after Canada accused India of carrying out assassination attempts on its citizens, three Indian-origin candidates\u2014Ruby Dhalla, Chandra Arya, and Viresh Bansal\u2014have been disqualified from the Liberal Party leadership race to become the next Prime Minister. The party cited allegations of anti-Sikh sentiments, homophobia, and support for foreign &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":169714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-169713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","tag-top-story"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/02\/Indian-origin-candidates-expelled-from-Canadas-Liberal-Party-leadership-race.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169715,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169713\/revisions\/169715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}