Chandigarh, May 5 -- The Congress on Sunday asked the Union government to deploy the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) to guard the Bhakra-Nangal dam in wake of Punjab Police seizing the control of Bhakra headworks at Nangal. Party general secretary and former Haryana power minister Randeep Singh Surjewala at a press briefing said it is for the first time in the history of India that a state has taken over a central project in this manner by deploying police force. "Through sheer bullying, the Punjab government has prevented the Bhakra Beas Management Board (BBMB), a body constituted under an Act of Parliament, from taking decisions. The responsibility of the security and control of the dam lies with the Union home ministry,'' Surjewala said. The former Haryana minister said despite the meeting by Union home ministry on May 2, the Punjab Police has not handed over the control of the regulator gates and operation of the Bhakra Nangal dam to the central government. "Even the BBMB chairman has written to the Union home ministry stating that CISF should be deployed for the security of the dam. But no action has been taken so far. The central government is maintaining silence on this issue,'' Surjewala said. The Congress MP said that after refusing to comply with the BBMB's decision to allocate 8,500 cusecs of water to Haryana, the Punjab government on May 1 deployed police at the dam and locked the system from where water is released through the regulator gates....