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OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is on his way to India, where he plans to spend the next week buttressing Canada’s cultural and economic ties with the burgeoning South Asian nation.

India is the world’s second-largest country by population and one of the world’s fastest growing economies — one that’s expected to overtake Great Britain later this year to become the fifth largest in the world.

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Meetings are scheduled with a number of Indian CEOs and business leaders, with visits to some of India’s biggest tourist sites, including the famed Taj Mahal in Agra, Jama Mosque, and Sabarmati Ashram, one of the former homes of Mahatma Gandhi.

Trudeau will not, however, be meeting the Indian politician who has publicly accused members of his cabinet of having links to the Sikh separatist movement.

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Despite Indian media reports that Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh is to be Trudeau’s tour guide at the Golden Temple in Amritsar, officials in the Prime Minister’s Office say no meeting is planned.