Aditya Jha Dept: Canadian politicians and diplomats, up to and including Minister of Immigration Jason Kenney, have indicated they would be open to warming relations with Modi and granting him a travel visa to visit even though the U.S. has barred the 60-year-old politician from travelling there, said Aditya Jha, an official with the Canada India Foundation, according to The Star. But Islamic groups and human rights organizations have linked Modi with encouraging attacks on Muslims in early 2002 after 58 Hindus were burned to death in a train and nEW DELHI Canada is considering extending an invitation to Narendra Modi, an incendiary Indian politician implicated in a 2002 massacre of more than 1,000 people, but who has also been instrumental in turning his home state into one of the most successful. Modi is chief minister of Gujarat, a west Indian state roughly the size of England with a population of 60 million. As
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