India, May 8 -- High drama prevailed at Nangal dam in Rupnagar district on Thursday when Punjab AAP minister Harjot Singh Bains brazenly locked Bhakra Beas Management Board chairman Manoj Tripathi at the dam's guest house despite the high court directive to the Aam Aadmi Party government not to interfere in the working of the BBMB. Chief minister Bhagwant Mann also rushed to the dam and declared BBMB officials would not be allowed to release water to Haryana.

Accompanied by around protesting 50 Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) workers, Bains announced: "We have locked the BBMB chairman inside Sutlej Bhawan (the dam's guest house) as he came here to attempt to release water from the Nangal dam to Haryana. When Punjab is struggling with ongoing Indo-...