The Ministry of External Affairs on July 4 summoned the High Commissioner of Canada Cameron MacKay and lodged a protest after campaigners for Khalistan put out posters targeting Indian diplomats in Canada. The top Canadian diplomat stationed in India was summoned after posters circulated online named two leading Indian diplomats stationed in Canada.
The posters called upon pro-Khalistan sympathisers to assemble in Toronto on July 8 in protest against the alleged killing of a leading campaigner for Khalistan, Hardeep Singh Nijjar. The poster that carried the words “Kill India” also displayed the photographs of Indian High Commissioner Sanjay Kumar Verma and Consul General in Toronto Apoorva Srivastava and the words “Faces of Shaheed Nijjar’s Killers in Toronto”.
The posters spread across the world via the Internet, urging sympathisers of Khalistan to take out similar marches towards Indian missions in other major western cities on July 8. All such posters carried photographs of Indian diplomats in Canada, the U.S. and Australia. The posters for Australia and the U.S. carried the faces of Indian High Commissioner to Australia Manpreet Vohra and Indian Ambassador to the U.S. Taranjit Singh Sandhu. An attempt was made to set fire to the Indian mission in San Francisco on Monday. However, MEA did not summon any American official in response.
