Dosanjh questions Malik's link to Tory candidate

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Liberal candidate Ujjal Dosanjh is calling on his Conservative rival to explain why she’s enlisted a man into her campaign who is linked to individuals involved in the Air India bombings.

Dosanjh has also filed an election complaint, alleging that Conservative candidate Wai Young and Ripudaman Singh Malik are violating election laws by using the Khalsa School of British Columbia in Vancouver to mount campaign attacks against him.

"We believe that the charities law is being violated when you have a school that receives funding from the B.C. government is actively campaigning for the Conservative candidate," Dosanjh told CBC News. "It's a violation of law and it obviously raises questions when you have a candidate of the Conservative party campaigning with Mr. Malik who has documented links to Mr. Reyat and others who've been involved in the Air India disaster."

The complaint, written by Dosanjh's campaign director Braeden Caley, alleges that Malik and Young both attended a meeting at the school on April 6 and that they urged attendees to support her candidacy.

“This meeting is of great concern to Mr. Dosanjh’s campaign because it would appear that a school in receipt of taxpayer funding from the British Columbia government was and is being deliberately used to support one particular candidate,” the complaint states.

Sources confirmed to CBC News that Young was at the meeting where she was personally endorsed by Malik.

Dosanjh, the incumbent MP of Vancouver South, is in a tight race, having won the riding by only 20 votes in the last election.

The complaint was sent to National Revenue Minister Keith Ashfield, B.C. Education Minister George Abbott and Elections Canada.

In March 2005, a B.C. Supreme Court judge acquitted Malik and co-accused Ajaib Singh Bagri in the 1985 bombings of two separate Air India flights that killed a total of 331 people.

Malik has admitted to providing financial assistance to the family of Inderjit Singh Reyat who was found guilty in 2010 of committing perjury during the trial of Malik and Bagri.

Reyat also served a 10-year sentence after being convicted in 1991 of two counts of manslaughter for making the bomb that exploded in Tokyo and killed the two baggage handlers.

Reyat was sentenced to five years in a separate trial for his role in constructing the bomb that brought down the Air India flight.

Malik was also a close associate of the alleged mastermind of the Air India bombing, Talwinder Parmar. Parmar was killed 15 years ago by the Indian police,

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