Canadian PM Justin Trudeau is a man who vastly divides opinion. His swooning fans across the globe swear by his drop-dead gorgeous looks and can’t get over the fact that he is unabashedly liberal and feminist. Add to that the fact that he is a colourful sock-wearing, panda-hugging former snowboard instructor who boxes and gave Donald Trump a lesson in shaking hands and one can understand his appeal in certain quarters. In fact, he's so enmeshed in the global pop culture that some actually thought he was the one who was dumped by Jennifer Anniston! 

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Others point out that Trudeau represents much of what’s wrong with democracy which gives to superficial characteristics, accuse him of virtue-signalling, like the term he asked a woman to use the term ‘peoplekind’ instead of mankind and begs journos to ask him about quantum computing.

So understandably people were looking forward to his visit. 

Commentators on Twitter pointed out that Trudeau was greeted by Minister of State for Agriculture Gajendra Singh Shekhawat at New Delhi airport instead of PM Modi. UP CM Yogi Adityanath also didn’t meet him during his visit to Agra.

Time and again, Trudeau – who bragged about having more Sikhs in his cabinet than PM Modi – has been seen as soft on Khalistani sympathisers, with the Sikh members of his cabinet also been accused of the same.

While the Print reported that Punjab CM Captain Amarinder Singh will receive Trudeau, his request to the MEA for a separate one-on-one meeting with Justin Trudeau to discuss the separatist Khalistani movement in Canada has still not been confirmed.

Reports in Canadian media have said that Trudeau won’t meet Amarinder Singh, and we will have to wait until February 21 to see how that works out.

Several commentators on Twitter felt that the reception for Justin Trudeau from the Indian side has been lukewarm so far. 

 Here’s how Twitter is reacting to Trudeau’s visit: