What Jaishankar said on overseas Khalistanis

In 2022, S Jaishankar was asked about the Khalistan movement sprouting overseas. Here's what he said...

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00:00Some time ago, I had a conversation with my Canadian counterpart, and I told him very frankly,

00:06Dekhi aapko vote bank politics apne yaha karna hai toh kar lijiye. Wahan baith ke mere yaha nahi kariye.

00:30Recently, main Punjab apne hometown visit karke aayi thi, aur wahan pe kitne saare banners

00:47aise the, gaadiyon aise the, kuch khule aam, kuch radical elements jo past mein se rahe

00:52hain, jaise ki Janay Singh Bhindawala, in sabke posters sare aam lage hain. Aur hamare

00:56aise youth hain jo aise deshon mein jaake opportunities leti hain, jinke MP, khule aam,

01:02matlab aise logon ko MP bana jaate hain, jo khule aam mein soch ko support bhi karte hain.

01:06Toh jab hamare youth waha pe opportunity ke liye jaari, jene hum rok nahi sakte, kyunki

01:10economic uske faidey hote hain. Lekin, jab radicalization kisi desh ke dwara support

01:16kiya jaata hain, iss tariki se influence kiya jaata hain, toh aise desh, jaise ki Canada

01:20hai, etc. Aise deshon ke saath kya foreign policy rahegi, aise cheezon kaise rubein,

01:24kahin ye na ho, ki Kashmir jaisa Pakistan ho jaye, Punjab bhi ho jaye.

01:29I got it. Aap Twitter follow karte hain? Haan? Karte hain na? Did you see my tweet yesterday?

01:36If you haven't, I would recommend. Pichle do din mein ek fashion chal raha hai, single

01:43word ka tweet. Toh mujhe laga kal ki main bhi ek single word tweet karloon. Toh main

01:50ek word tweet kiya. Ekta. Main tweet kiya kyunki main Statue of Unity par tha. Toh mujhe

01:59laga, in our country, ekta is very important. And that is why Statue of Unity is very important

02:07and most often when I come to Gujarat, I come there because a lot of my work is associated

02:14with that. And yeh, dekhi, again maine kaha na ki world is a very competitive place. Agar

02:24hamaare yaha aapas mein koi divisions ho, yeh language ke ho sakte hain, dharam ke ho

02:35sakte hain, ethnicity, jo bhi, jo bhi ho. Duniya mein aisi taqatein hongi jo uska faida

02:41uthana chahenge. Aur pehle utha bhi chuke hain. Mane awad mein jab aaye the, wo aisa hi aaye

02:49the. Kahi kahi na kahi unko do log lade, wo beech mein ghus gaye, kisi ka faida uthai

02:55aur unhone apna kaam kar liye. So, it is very important for us, at home, ekta. Aur jo aap

03:06keh rahein, agar bahar ki politics ya bahar ki sarkaar hain, jo bhi hai, agar wo aisa

03:14kuch karein, jo humein nuksaan pauchata hai, we should, first of all, have the courage

03:20to call it out. Ki yeh nahi, humein baddash nahi karna chahi, na chup rehana chahi. So,

03:27if they do something which affects us, if we can, if we can take a position on oil for

03:36the common citizen, 100% we can take a position on national unity of the country.

03:42And we are doing it. That also I will tell you. I mean, sometime ago, I had a, because aapne

03:53specific ek reference liya, I will tell you very frankly. Sometime ago, I had a conversation with my Canadian counterpart.

04:00And I told her very frankly, dekhe, aapko vote bank politics apne yaha karna toh kar liji.

04:05Wahan baith ke mere yaha nahi kari. This I will not accept. So, so, you know, I will envy the person who is foreign minister in 2047.

04:20But I will tell you one thing. To be foreign minister of Narendra Modi government is also a great strength.

04:28And you, there are core beliefs, there is confidence, there is a, there is a attitude. And I think the world is recognizing that.