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The Modi ‘friends’ who helped finance Poilievre’s leadership campaign | Globalnews.ca

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Aditya Tawatia is the founder of a Canadian organization set up to elect Narendra Modi in India .

The summer before Modi ’s 2014 election victory, he founded the Overseas Friends of BJP Canada .

The group's founding convenors donated thousands of dollars to Pierre Poilievre's leadership campaign.

The original leaders of the group said the group was no longer active, but pushed for improved ties with India .

The new government will also face a Canada - India friendship that is badly frayed.

India wants a crackdown on Canada ’s Khalistan independence movement.

Canada accuses India of targeting Canadian Sikh activists and funding Canadian politicians they deem sympathetic.

Managing India and its challenge to Canadian sovereignty will be a foreign policy priority for the future prime minister.

The Friends of BJP in the U.S. remains active but has registered under the country’s foreign agents laws.

For his part, Kaushik created the National Alliance of Indo-Canadians and folded his group in 2021 .

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