India, April 8 -- Union minister of state for railways Ravneet Bittu met BJP leader Manoranjan Kalia on Tuesday after a grenade blast was reported outside his house in Jalandhar and said that there is an atmosphere of fear in Punjab.

Since November last year, Punjab has seen more than a dozen incidents of similar grenade attacks on police stations, places of worship and a YouTuber's house in Jalandhar, but this is the first time a political leader's house has been targeted.

Interacting with mediapersons, Bittu said: "The Punjab government has lost control of the law-and-order situation in Punjab. The border state has gone through militancy, but even then, grenades were not used like this. It seems as if grenades are easily available in ...