bathinda, October 26
Punjab-origin Canadian politician Anita Anand was on Tuesday appointed country’s new Defence Minister in a Cabinet reshuffle by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, over a month after his Liberal Party returned power in the snap polls and amid calls for major military reforms.
Anand, 54, will replace long-time Defence Minister Indian-origin Harjit Sajjan, whose handling of the military sexual misconduct crisis has been under criticism. Sajjan has been appointed Minister of International Development Agency, a report in a daily said.
Anand is the second woman in Canada to be appointed Defence Minister
Brampton West’s Kamal Khera, another Punjabi, has been named Minister of Seniors. Bardish Chaggar, another Indo-Canadian minister, has been dropped from the new Cabinet. — TNS
(The article is generated from The Tribune via feeds, The Chenab Times staff didn’t wrote this news.)
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