Wooing Sikh voters while turning a blind eye to Khalistani sympathizers worked well for Poilievre's party during the election

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Conservative party deputy leader Tim Uppal posted on social media on Wednesday morning, urging Sikhs to remember 1984.

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“Forty one years ago, a pre-planned attack by the Indian army named Operation Blue Star was executed against one of the Sikh’s holiest places of worship, the Golden Temple, on one of the holiest days… Although intended to destroy the community, Sikhs have grown stronger over the years.”

It is not clear whether Uppal posted the reminder of an episode that inflames Khalistani separatists in spite of, or because of, remarks made by his former boss Stephen Harper at an event in Brampton, Ont. last weekend.

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The ex-prime minister urged all political parties to heed two points: firstly, that today more than ever, Canada needs a strong relationship with India; and, secondly, that any party that aspires to government must “sever its relations with those who seek bring the battle of India’s past to Canada.”

While such people have the right to their democratic views, just as we tolerate those who want to break up Canada, we do not tolerate such views in parties that wish to govern the country, he said. When he was in government, his caucus understood this, he added.

There was a sense in the pointed nature of his message that he does not think this is the case now in Pierre Poilievre’s Conservative party.

There are subtle signs of Sikh ascendancy.

Harper is said to have been asked by the Conservative campaign not to post any photos of himself and Indian Prime........

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