"Such irresponsible actions will have serious consequences for bilateral ties".
"Regarding the latest Canadian target, we summoned the representative of the Canadian High Commission yesterday... It was conveyed in the 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 before the Committee by Deputy Minister David Morrison," Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal told a press conference here.
The Indian government on Saturday said the Canadian officials "deliberately leaked unfounded insinuations to international media to discredit India and influence other nations".
Shah is trusted aide, colleague and now Home Minister of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and naming him makes it clear that the Canadian authorities are out to play politics rather than handle things at the diplomatic levels.
Two senior officials of the Justin Trudeau-led government recently confessed to leaking intelligence and sensitive information against India to the Washington Post even before the Canadian police publicly alleged that their probe into the murder of Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar revealed links between agents of the Indian government and "homicides and violent acts" in Canada.
Deputy Foreign Minister David Morrison told a parliamentary panel on Tuesday that a top ranking official in the PM Modi-led government was behind the plots to attack Sikh separatists in Canada.
New Delhi dismissed the allegations and said the move was aimed at discrediting India and "influencing other nations".
"In fact, the revelation that high Canadian officials deliberately leak unfounded insinuations to the international media as part of a conscious strategy to discredit India and influence other nations ......
only confirms the view that the government of India has long held about the current Canadian government's political agenda and behavioural pattern," the MEA said.
ON SURVEILLANCE OF INDIAN CONSULAR OFFICIALS
The MEA further slammed the surveillance of India’s consular officials in Canada and said a formal protest has been lodged with the Justin Trudeau-led government over the issue. The government said the surveillance of its officials was a “flagrant violation of diplomatic conventions”.
"Some of our Consular officials were recently informed by the Canadian Government that they have been and continue to be under audio and video surveillance. Their communications have also been intercepted.
We have formally protested to the Canadian Government as we deem these actions to be a flagrant violation of relevant diplomatic and consular conventions,” MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said.
The relations between India and Canada soured following the Canadian government's allegations of links between Indian agents and the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar last year.
"Such irresponsible actions will have serious consequences for bilateral ties," the government said on Saturday.
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