new delhi india on tuesday reacted strongly to remarks made by some canadian leaders including prime minister justin trudeau on the ongoing farmers agitation and called the statements illinformed and unwarrantedin a terse message the government asked the canadian leaders to refrain from commenting on indias internal affairs and maintain the sanctity of diplomatic conversationsthousands of farmers from punjab haryana and several other states have been protesting for the last six days at the borders of the national capital against the three farm laws enacted by the governmentweve seen some illinformed comments by canadian leaders relating to farmers in india these are unwarranted especially when pertaining to the internal affairs of a democratic country its also best that diplomatic conversations arent misrepresented for political purposes the ministry of external affairs said without taking the name of trudeaureferring to the farmers agitation trudeau had on monday called the situation concerning and had said that canada will always be there to defend the rights of peaceful proteststhe situation is concerning and we are all very worried about family and friends and i know that is a reality for many of you let me remind you canada will always be there to defend the right of peaceful protest turdeau had said at an online event to mark the 551st birth anniversary of guru nanak devaddressing the indian community trudeau said he would be remiss if he didnt recognise the news coming out of india about the protest by farmerstrudeau further claimed that canada had voiced its concerns to indian authorities we believe in the importance of dialogue and that is why we have reached out through multiple means directly to indian authorities to highlight our concerns the canadian pm said in a video posted on his social media accountscanada has a significant number of indians and many of them are from punjab trudeau is not the only canadian leader to go public with his views on the issue his indianorigin defence minister harjit sajjan had also expressed concern over the situationthe reports of peaceful protesters being brutalized in india are very troubling many of my constituents have family there and are worried about the safety of their loved ones healthy democracies allow peaceful protest i urge those involved to uphold this fundamental right sajjan had tweeted on sundayearlier some canadian mps as well as new democratic party ndp leader jagmeet singh had also raised concerns about the use of force on farmers from punjab as they marched towards delhi opposition parties slam justin trudeauseveral opposition parties have also slammed canadian leaders for interfering in indias internal politicsshiv sena leader priyanka chaturvedi urged trudeau not to play politics using indias internal issue as fodderdear justintrudeau touched by your concern but indias internal issue is not fodder for another nations politics pls respect the courtesies that we always extend to other nations request pm narendramodi ji to resolve this impasse before other countries find it okay to opine tweeted chaturvedi a rajya sabha memberaap leader