India, March 27 -- While an unnamed Canadian official blamed the revocation of Indo-Canadian MP Chandra Arya candidacy for the forthcoming Federal election on factors like his meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi last year, he countered by accusing the Liberal Party of taking that sudden decision because of his "firm stance against Khalistani extremism."

The anonymous official was cited by the outlet Globe and Mail, which in a report on Wednesday, linked the revocation of the candidacy of the three-term MP to "alleged foreign-interference concerns involving India."

The official also alluded to Arya's meeting with Modi in New Delhi in August last year, which was not cleared with Ottawa in advance and to a briefing by the Cana...