Adding that there were in fact, five ministers in the Justin Trudeau government with ‘Khalistani’ leanings, he made it clear that he would have nothing to do with any of them.

“They had prevailed upon the government to prevent my entry into Canada, where I wanted to go to meet my Punjabi brethren and not to campaign for elections,” he was quoted by the Hindustan Times as saying.

Captain Singh, known for his candidness, has spoken his mind on a variety of issues - the latest being on the electronic voting machine controversy, when he dismissed the claim of tampering. He said if the EVMs had been tampered with in Punjab, he would “not be sitting here today”.