Pulwama redux.

"In a historic move, the Rajya Sabha on Thursday (yesterday) unanimously passed the women's reservation bill after an 11-hour debate. The bill was passed by the Lok Sabha on Wednesday." HT. A five-day special session of the Parliament was called for this week. India Today. On 20 September, "The Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha met in the new parliament building today at 1.15 pm and 2.15 pm respectively." NDTV. This unnecessary drama was purely for the coming general election which must be held by May 2024. wikpedia. However, a manna has fallen quite unexpectedly into  Mr Modi's hands. This came right after, "Prime Minister Narendra Modi was...showered with petals and greeted with slogans and drumbeats at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) headquarters, where party workers joined hands to raucously congratulate him for the successful G20 summit." HT. Then, on 18 September, "Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is accusing the government of India of involvement in the fatal shooting of a Canadian Sikh leader," as "Canadian citizen Hardeep Singh Nijjar was brazenly shot dead outside a Sikh temple in Surrey, B.C. on June 18," CBC. This was Pulwama all over again. On 14 February 2019, 40 Central Reserve Police personnel were killed by a suicide bomber in a car in the Pulwama district of Kashmir. wikipedia. Following this outrage, Indian warplanes bombed a terrorist training camp at Balakot in Pakistan, wikipedia, and Modi won the general election in a landslide with 300 out of 543 seats in the Lok Sabha in April-May 2019. BBC. So, India has decided to get its retaliation in first (wikipedia).  When Canada expelled a top Indian diplomat who was head of Indian intelligence in Canada (CNBC), India immediately expelled a Canadian diplomat based in New Delhi. CNN. When Canada issued a travel advisory to its citizens for travel to India (BT), India immediately issued a travel advisory for Indians traveling to Canada. HT. On top of that, "India on Thursday (yesterday) suspended new visas for Canadians and asked Ottawa to reduce its diplomatic presence in the country." Reuters. "But Ottawa's countersignal is serious. Ottawa's core audience is not New Delhi, but its Five Eyes allies (Australia, New Zealand, the UK and the US). More than seeking to deter India from using similar methods in future, Canada is telling its allies that there are limits to the West's alignment with India," wrote Avinash Palwal. "Australia's Queensland state police have released documents of their investigation into graffiti that defaced a temple's outer wall in Brisbane," The Wire. Apparently, there was a "Hindu hand" in the anti-Modi graffiti that was done at night on 3 March but was blamed on Khalistani elements. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak "has confirmed that he raised the case of a Scottish Sikh who has been held by Indian authorities since 2017," in talks with Modi. BBC. And, "US President Joe Biden...expressed concern...that New Delhi was involved in the murder of a Sikh separatist leader in Canada, the Financial Times reported," and "Several members of the Five Eyes" also raised the killing. Reuters. In India, elections are won by extra-judicial killing, euphemistically known as "encounters", of alleged criminals. ET. But Canada is not Pakistan, and India is not the injured party this time. And, there is plenty of time to election.