New Delhi
\nIndia on Saturday denied home minister Amit Shah had plotted to target Sikh activists on Canadian soil and said it had officially rebuked Ottawa over the \u201cabsurd and baseless\u201d allegation.
\nCanada is home to the largest Sikh community outside of India, and includes activists for \u201cKhalistan\u201d, a fringe separatist movement seeking an independent state for the religious minority carved out of Indian territory.
\nCanadian officials said this week that Ottawa had traced a campaign targeting Canadian Khalistan activists to the highest levels of India\u2019s government and implicated Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s powerful right-hand man.
\n\u201cThe Government of India protests in the strongest terms to the absurd and baseless references made to the Union Home Minister of India,\u201d foreign ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal told reporters.
\n\u201cWe had summoned the representative of the Canadian High Commission yesterday. A diplomatic note was handed over,\u201d he added.
\nJaiswal accused Canadian officials of deliberately leaking \u201cunfounded insinuations\u201d to the media to \u201cdiscredit India\u201d.
\n\u201cSuch irresponsible actions will have serious consequences for bilateral ties,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
New Delhi India on Saturday denied home minister Amit Shah had plotted to target Sikh activists on Canadian soil and said it had officially rebuked Ottawa over the \u201cabsurd and baseless\u201d allegation. Canada is home to the largest Sikh community outside of India, and includes activists for \u201cKhalistan\u201d, a fringe separatist movement seeking an independent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441292,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-441268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n