India protests Canada for linking home minister Shah to Sikh separatist assassination plots
India has lodged a protest after Canada linked Indian Home Minister Amit Shah to plots targeting the Sikh community on Canadian soil.
Indian Foreign Ministry spokesman Randhir Jaiswal said on Saturday that a representative of the Canadian High Commission was summoned on Friday and handed a note.
Jaiswal said the note conveyed that the Indian government protested in the strongest terms what it called the absurd and baseless references made to Shah before a committee by Canada’s Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister David Morrison.
Morrison recently informed a parliamentary panel that he told the Washington Post that Shah was behind the assassination plots.
There has been a breakdown in Canada-India relations since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau linked New Delhi to serious crimes against Sikh Canadians.
New Delhi has rejected the allegations made by Ottawa.
Last month, Canada expelled six Indian diplomats.
The country’s national police force identified them as persons of interest in the June 2023 assassination of Canadian-Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar.
Nijjar was a vocal supporter of the creation of a separate Sikh state in India.
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