India, March 20 -- Union minister Ravneet Singh Bittu on Thursday launched a scathing attack on Punjab chief minister Bhagwat Mann over the detention of protesting farmers from the Shambhu border.

The detentions come as the Bharatiya Janata Party-led central government continues to hold talks with the protesting farmers. Several farmer leaders were detained by the Punjab police on Wednesday evening while returning from one such meeting. Bittu, who is the only member minister from Punjab in the Narendra Modi government, accused Mann of working at the behest of Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal.

"Tu sirf Kejriwal de ishareya te nachda (You only work on Kejriwal's signals)," Bittu was quoted by ANI as saying.

The Union minister went o...