Jagmeet Singh, the head of Canadas New Democratic Party (NDP), has disavowed all acts of terrorism even as he came into the eye of a storm over his appearance at an apparently pro-Khalistan event in San Francisco in 2015. Singh, who was denied a visa by India in 2013 and had not spoken out against the practice of some guruwaras in Canada eulogising Sikh militants as heroes, had appeared at the San Francisco event on a platform with the backdrop of a large poster of Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, considered in India as the person who birthed the violence of the Khalistan movement in the 1980s.