Dal Khalsa on G7: Sikh Rights Can­not Be Traded for Diplo­matic Smiles and Trade Deals

Jus­tice is not a bar­gain­ing chip. As the gov­ern­ments of In­dia and Canada seek to re­set re­la­tions through trade and diplo­macy, the con­science of the Sikh na­tion de­mands clar­ity—not com­pro­mise. In this ex­clu­sive re­port, WSN brings you the voice of Dal Khalsa, which re­mains stead­fast in its call for ac­count­abil­ity in the as­sas­si­na­tion of Sha­heed Bhai Hard­eep Singh Ni­j­jar, and pays homage to two icons of the Sikh free­dom strug­gle. Their legacy, Dal Khalsa re­minds the world, is not for sale. In a pow­er­ful state­ment ahead of its Sharadan­jali Sam­agam at Dar­bar Sahib, the Dal Khalsa warned that the Sikh strug­gle for jus­tice and self-de­ter­mi­na­tion can­not be bartered away in the name of trade pacts or diplo­matic re­sets. The trib­ute event, to be held on July 5, marks the first death an­niver­sary of Dal Khalsa founder Gajin­der Singh and the sec­ond mar­tyr­dom an­niver­sary of Bhai Hard­eep Singh Ni­j­jar.

At a press con­fer­ence in Am­rit­sar, party lead­ers Paramjit Singh Mand and Kan­war Pal Singh de­scribed the two men as ide­o­log­i­cal soul­mates, united in their un­wa­ver­ing com­mit­ment to Sikh sov­er­eignty.

“They dreamed the same dream—and paid the same price,” said Mand. “That’s why we are ho­n­our­ing their legacy to­gether at the heart of Sikh spir­i­tual sov­er­eignty at Dar­bar Sahib, Am­rit­sar.”

Re­fer­ring to the re­cent thaw in In­dia-Canada re­la­tions af­ter the bi­lat­eral meet­ing be­tween Prime Min­is­ters Naren­dra Modi and Mark Car­ney at the G7 Sum­mit, the Dal Khalsa ex­pressed grave con­cern.

“This so-called re­set can­not over­ride Sikh rights, nor erase the blood­stains of transna­tional re­pres­sion,” said Kan­war Pal Singh, Dal Khal­sa’s po­lit­i­cal af­fairs sec­re­tary.

The or­ga­ni­za­tion sharply crit­i­cized Canada’s si­lence on his sec­ond death an­niver­sary and no cul­mi­na­tion to the probe in Ni­j­jar’s as­sas­si­na­tion, which was cred­i­bly linked to In­dian in­tel­li­gence by for­mer Prime Min­is­ter Justin Trudeau. “Two years later, no jus­tice, no ac­count­abil­ity. And now a hand­shake? This is diplo­matic am­ne­sia,” said Kan­war Pal Singh.

Dal Khalsa em­pha­sized that the mur­der of Ni­j­jar was not just an iso­lated act of vi­o­lence—it was a cal­cu­lated mes­sage to the global Sikh com­mu­nity.

“Transna­tional re­pres­sion is not a the­ory. It is real. It is state ter­ror, and it has now been ac­knowl­edged by the G7. That ac­knowl­edg­ment is a vic­tory wrested by Sikh di­as­pora ac­tivism,” said the lead­ers.

The group called out Cana­dian Prime Min­is­ter Mark Car­ney for hid­ing be­hind ju­di­cial niceties. “An ‘on­go­ing ju­di­cial process’ should not be­come a con­ve­nient ex­cuse for po­lit­i­cal si­lence. Jus­tice de­layed—es­pe­cially when paired with trade deals—is jus­tice de­nied,” the state­ment read.

With re­newed eco­nomic ne­go­ti­a­tions un­der­way be­tween Ot­tawa and New Delhi, Dal Khalsa urged the Sikh com­mu­nity to stay vig­i­lant and vo­cal. “Gen­uine peace is not built on si­lence. It is built on jus­tice,” said the lead­ers.

The July 5 memo­r­ial meet­ing at Dar­bar Sahib will be a pub­lic as­ser­tion of that truth, and a solemn re­minder that for Sikhs, the road to jus­tice is not ne­go­tiable—even when gov­ern­ments choose to look away.