Toronto, Oct. 11 -- After extending support to separatists in the province of Alberta, pro-Khalistan secessionists have now reached out to the pro-independence party which recently assumed power in Quebec.

The Parti Quebecois will form the next government in Quebec as it garnered the most seats in the provincial election on October 5. On Friday, the secessionist group Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) invited Quebec's premier-designate Paul St-Pierre Plamondon and representatives from his party to attend the so-called Khalistan referendum in Edmonton scheduled for October 18 as "observers".

SFJ general counsel Gurpatwant Pannun congratulated Plamondon on his victory and "commended the Parti Quebecois for continuing to champion the democratic prin...