India junks Canada's 'election interference' charge as 'baseless'
India TodayIndia has strongly rejected as "baseless" allegations of its interference in the Canadian general elections and has claimed that Ottawa was, instead, meddling in New Delhi's internal affairs. India's hard-hitting response, which was made in February, came after a Canadian media report claimed that India and Pakistan attempted to "interfere" in the 2019 and 2021 federal elections in Canada, the country's spy agency, Canadian Security Intelligence Service, alleged. Two years earlier, in 2019, "Government of Pakistan officials in Canada attempted to clandestinely influence Canadian federal politics with the aim of furthering the Government of Pakistan's interests in Canada," the CSIS claimed. The CSIS documents claimed that the Indian government targeted those electoral districts due to New Delhi's perception that "a portion of Indian-Canadian voters were sympathetic to the Khalistani movement or pro-Pakistan political stances".