India slams Canada for linking home minister to Sikh plots

India’s foreign ministry said on Saturday that it had lodged a strong protest with the Canadian government for linking India’s home minister to alleged plots against Sikh separatists in Canada and accused Ottawa of spying on Indian consular staff. “It was conveyed in a note that the government of India protests in the strongest terms to the absurd and baseless references made to the Union Home Minister of India,” Indian foreign ministry’s spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said at a New Delhi press conference.

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