More Sikhs in canada cabinet |
Long before Justin Trudeau became Canada`s prime minister and sprang to limelight as the world`s latest political heartthrob, a video circulated on YouTube of him doing the bhangra at an Indian community event in Canada, jocularly referred too among accent snobs by its Punjabi name, Kannedda. The dance, to the song `Dil Bole Hadippa`, at an event organized by the India-Canada Association of Montreal when the young pol was still an MP, also earned him the moniker `Justin Singh Trudeau.So it came as no surprise when Prime Minister Trudeau inducted four Sikhs in his 30-member cabinet soon after coming to office in 2015 given his comfort level with the community. This week, the affable Canadian pointedly mentioned the fact at a public engagement in Washington DC that he has more Sikhs in my Cabinet than Indian Prime Minister Modi . Indeed, the Modi Cabinet has only two Sikh ministers - Maneka Gandhi (who is Sikh by birth) and Harsimrat Kaur Badal. But India has done one better overall - with a Sikh PM among the 15 who have occupied the office so far. Sikhs constitute about 2% of India`s population; Canada is about the same, but in an overall population of 36 million.Out of the four, three are Sikhs – that is where the comment comes from.
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