NEW DELHI: India on Saturday (Nov 2) denied that Interior Minister Amit Shah had plotted to focus on Sikh activists on Canadian soil and stated it had formally rebuked Ottawa for the “absurd and baseless” allegations.
Canada is dwelling to the most important Sikh group exterior India and consists of activists from “Khalistan,” a fringe separatist motion searching for an impartial state for the spiritual minority carved out of Indian territory.
Canadian officers stated this week that Ottawa had traced a marketing campaign towards Canadian Khalistan activists to the very best ranges of the Indian authorities and had implicated Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s highly effective right-hand man.
“The Government of India protests within the strongest phrases towards the absurd and baseless references made to the Indian Home Minister,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal instructed reporters.
“Yesterday we summoned the consultant of the Canadian High Commission. We got a diplomatic be aware,” he added.
Jaiswal accused Canadian officers of intentionally leaking “baseless insinuations” to the media to “discredit India”.
“Such irresponsible actions may have critical penalties for bilateral ties,” he stated.
