Mann rushes to Nangal dam to stop BBMB from releasing water to hry
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. The development comes days after the April 28 demand by Haryana for an additional 4,500 cusecs of water from the Bhakra dam snowballed into a stand-off as Punjab refused to accept the decision.
Criticising the attempts by the BBMB to send its officials to release water from the dam, Mann, in a post on X, said, "At the behest of the BJP government at the Centre, BBMB is not stopping its dirty deeds. While Punjab is standing firm against Pakistan on its border, the BJP government sitting at the Centre is once again going to put a stamp on the water of Punjab by the officials of BBMB."...
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