TORONTO, Oct. 12 -- The Narendra Modi government has served a demarche to the Justin Trudeau government asking it to stop the Khalistan Referendum organized by pro-Khalistan secessionist group Sikhs For Justice (SFJ) in Ontario on November 6.

The demarche was served to a senior official of the Canadian High Commission in India by a senior Ministry of External Affairs official and the same will be conveyed by the Indian Embassy in Ottawa to Global Affairs.

New Delhi has reminded the Canadian govt of the bombing of the Emperor Kanishka aircraft (Air India flight 182) in 1985 which blew up over the Atlantic Ocean killing all 329 aboard, including 268 Canadian citizens.

The SFJ immediately shot back and challenged S. Jaishankar for a live ...