Two moderate Sikh politicians have filed police reports against an organizer of Saturday's Vaisakhi parade, alleging he implicitly threatened them while speaking on a Punjabi-language radio station.

The comments were made by Inderjit Singh Bains while discussing the annual Surrey parade, which draws tens of thousands of people, on Sher-E-Punjab radio Thursday.

"Everybody's invited except those who've been excluded," he said of the event.

That includes Liberal MP Ujjal Dosanjh and Liberal MLA Dave Hayer, he said. Local politicians regularly make speeches at the parade, but Bains said Dosanjh and Hayer are "not invited on the stage."

"We've never invited them. If they come they should bring their own security."

Both Dosanjh and Hayer have been outspoken critics of the violence that divided B.C.'s Sikh community in the 1980s, when Sikh separatists are blamed for the bombings of two government-owned Air India planes, killing 331 people.

Hayer, whose father, newspaper publisher and moderate Sikh Tara Sing Hayer was murdered in 1998, says the comments were meant to intimidate.

"I got the transcript of what was said and I was shocked," he said.

"They implied a threat to myself. These are some of the core words they used to use when my father was alive, trying to say his safety will not be guaranteed."

Dosanj, who was badly beaten 25 years ago by a suspected Sikh terrorist, agrees.

"It's an invitation for others to do violence against me if I do attend, and I think it's despicable."

Parade organizer Moninder Singh says there was no threat – just no promise of extra security if fundamentalist parade-goers object to the politicians' moderate views.

"The comments were blown out of proportion," he said. "They're more then welcome to attend, we're just not going to provide any special circumstances for them."

Premier Gordon Campbell says he won't be taking part in the parade unless organizers apologize for the remarks. Hayer and Dosanjh say they weren't planning on going anyway, but that they don't want the controversy to rain on the parade.

"The parade belongs to the 100,000 people who actually go there," Dosanjh said.

With files from The Canadian Press and a report from CTV British Columbia's Shannon Paterson