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The federal New Democratic Party could be hurt by growing revelations that leader Jagmeet Singh has been embroiled in the “blood hatreds” of his ancestral home, say political observers.

“The risk is that the leader of the NDP is seen as too closely identified with his ethnic community and with some of the more militant elements within it,” said University of B.C. political scientist emeritus Philip Resnick.

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“One of the greatest challenges to multiculturalism is the tendency for members of diasporic communities to bring the blood hatreds of their communities of origin to their country of adoption or birth. This seems to be the problem with respect to Jagmeet Singh and the question of Khalistan.”

Resnick was among the political observers responding to media reports Wednesday that Singh appeared at a 2015 rally in San Francisco at which speakers called for a separate Sikh nation in India, known as Khalistan, and honoured a violent Sikh militant.