About two months back, videos had surfaced purportedly showing men, suspected to be based in Canada, giving threats to the chief minister at an event in British Columbia's Surrey on April 22.
Leaders of the Congress party in Punjab alleged that a "cover-up" in the Canadian government's decision to close its probe into the "brazen threats" issued by the pro-Khalistanis against Amarinder.
"The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) should seek the Canadian Prime Minister's intervention to ensure that those guilty of using the country's soil to issue open and violent threats to the Punjab chief minister are not allowed a free run," state party leaders Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, Sukhbinder Singh Sarkaria and Ramanjit Singh Sikki said in a joint statement.
"The Punjab Congress has called for activation of all international diplomatic channels to put pressure on the Canadian government to take necessary steps to check the proliferation of anti-India forces on their soil," the leaders said.
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Canada should be asked to reopen the case and get it independently investigated in the interest of justice and fair play, and to ensure that its land is not used for divisive propaganda and spreading hatred, they said.
They recalled that Amarinder was forced to cancel his Canada visit last year following the complaint and case lodged against him by the SFJ on "frivolous" grounds.
Canada should take strong steps to prevent such "frivolous" cases against Indian leaders, especially when these were obviously aimed at playing into hands of anti-India forces like the ISI to embarrass India and project a wrong image of the country, the leaders said.