CHANDIGARH: Canada’s defense minister of Indian-origin, Harjit Singh Sajjan, will visit India from April 19 to 22.
The minister will tour Amritsar, Jalandhar and Chandigarh in his four-day stay, stated the tentative programme of his visit from Ministry of External Affairs.
Sajjan is expected to meet Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh and also pay obeisance at Golden Temple during his visit to Amritsar. An advance team of Canadian High Commission and officials of Canadian government visited Amritsar on Thursday in order to confirm the security measures taken up by the police.
Sajjan, the first Sikh Indo-Canadian defence minister of Canada and a Member of Parliament representing Vancouver South, is the fifth Canadian minister to visit India in 2017.