Top Indian Canadian leader and former Canadian health minister Ujjal Dosanjh has urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to intervene to stop the auction of Mahatma Gandhi's artefacts in New York next month.

Dosanjh, who in 2000 created history by becoming the first non-white premier of any Canadian province, told said, "I am writing a letter to Dr Singh to impress upon him the importance of acquiring these artefacts."