Despite a formal confirmation to The Washington Post by Canada’s Deputy Foreign Minister David Morrison that Union Home Minister Amit Shah was the “top Indian official” involved in the plot to kill Canadian citizens, there has been no official reaction from India’s Ministry of External Affairs (MEA).
The MEA’s silence is curious. Such undercover assignments are normally the domain of the external intelligence agency of India, the Research & Analysis Wing (R&AW). The operational and line reporting of the R&AW is to the Prime Minister through the National Security Adviser (NSA). The charge, therefore, ought to have been easily deniable, as the R&AW would not normally report to the Union Home Minister.
Unless we believe that the Canadians are bluffing on a grand scale, we must allow that their allegations are based on evidence unearthed by the investigations of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).
One can only surmise then, that if the charges are true, India’s external intelligence agency bosses were reporting directly to someone other than their line and operational superiors. If Shah was indeed acting through the existing structure of the R&AW, then a number of well-trained agents would have been involved in operationalising the alleged conspiracy. Above all, it would require a responsible go-between with Lawrence Bishnoi lodged in Gandhinagar Jail in Gujarat. He could not be a freelancer like Nikhil Gupta held in the botched-up plot to assassinate Khalistani leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannun in the United States….
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