Patiala, May 12 -- Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann on Sunday said the Bhakhra Beas Management Board (BBMB) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will be held responsible if violence breaks out over the ongoing water dispute.

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader, for the third time in a fortnight, reached the Nangal dam in Rupnagar district of Punjab after he came to know that BBMB officials reached the dam to release water to Haryana.

AAP workers and some local villagers led by Punjab cabinet minister Harjot Singh Bains held a protest against the officials for their attempt to release water to the neighbouring state.

This came four days after BBMB chairman Manoj Tripathi was allegedly locked inside Nangal dam's guest house by AAP worker...