E-Visa Resumes: After two months, India has again started e-Visa for Canadian citizens. It was stopped after relations between the two countries deteriorated in September over the issue of terrorist Nijjar.
India has again started electronic visa services for Canadian citizens after almost two months. This has brought great relief to Canadian citizens. Relations between the two countries had soured after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s allegations of India’s involvement in the murder of Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar. Amidst the diplomatic controversy arising out of this, India had suspended visa services for Canadian citizens on September 21.
India has announced the resumption of e-Visa at a time when Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are going to face each other in the virtual meeting of the G-20. The action taken by India before this meeting is being seen as a positive step towards bringing the mutual relations between the two countries back on track.
Let us tell you that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had alleged that “agents of the Indian government” were involved in the murder of Canadian citizen Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in June. The Indian government strongly denied this and called the allegations absurd, fabricated and without any evidence. New Delhi has also demanded Ottawa to share evidence in support of its claims in this regard, but till now Ottawa has failed to provide any evidence.
Resumption of e-Visa means it includes four types of visas including medical visa, business visa and tourist visa. In September, Bharatiya Janata Party had banned these visas till further orders. When relations between the two countries had soured, both the countries had issued advisories to their citizens.
Canada had urged its citizens to consider traveling to India and said “extreme caution” should be taken in traveling to India in the wake of “politically supported” hate crimes.
