Patiala, May 12 -- Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann on Sunday said the Bhakhra Beas Management Board (BBMB) and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at the Centre 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, visited the Nangal dam in Rupnagar district of Punjab after allegedly coming to know that officials of the BBMB - a central body that manages and regulates water in Bhakra, Pong and Ranjit Sagar dams - had reached the dam to release water to Haryana. The development comes days after the April 28 Haryana government's demanded for an additional 4,500 cusecs of water from the Bhakra dam snowballed into a stand-off between the neighbouring states, with Punjab refusing the request. "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," the Punjab chief minister said in a post on X. Speaking to reporters at the Nangal dam, Mann further warned the BJP and BBMB to not try to disturb the law and order in the region by sending officials to the dam. "If any untoward incident takes place, there is any loss of life and property or violence takes place, then BBMB and BJP will be held responsible for this," the AAP leader said. The chief minister's comments comes days after the May 7 order of the Punjab and Haryana high court restraining the Punjab government and its functionaries, including police personnel, from interfering in the functioning of Nangal dam. The court had also directed the AAP government to comply with the BBMB's decision to release additional water for meeting the emergent needs of Haryana. The board's decision was taken in a meeting chaired by the Union home secretary on May 2 for the release of an extra 4,500 cusecs of water from BBMB dams to Haryana and Rajasthan. The court's direction came on a petition moved by the BBMB alleging that the Punjab police had "forcibly" taken over operational control of the Nangal dam, which lies on the downstream of the Bhakhra Nangal dam on the Sutjej river. Punjab had then claimed that it deployed additional security "in view of the recent terror attack in Pahalgam", while arguing that Haryana had already overdrawn its water quota and was "demanding irrigation water under the guise of drinking needs". On Saturday, the Punjab chief minister slammed the BJP-led Union government for "advantage" of the border conflict with Pakistan to "send BBMB to lift the gates of the dam to loot Punjab's water". "On one hand, there is an atmosphere of terror in the border areas of Punjab due to the war. On the other hand, BJP, taking advantage of the war, sends BBMB to lift the gates to loot Punjab's water. We will not let this cheap trick of theirs against Punjab succeed," Mann said on X. Punjab, a border state, has been on edge following multiple cross-border drone and missile strikes from Pakistan following Indian armed forces airstrikes on nine terrorist infrastructures in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). The military action from India came in retaliation to the April 22 terror attack in Pahalgam that claimed the lives of 26 people. Mann also criticised farmer unions over their silence on the ongoing water dispute. "We are trying to save water for farmers. Now where are farmers' unions? They have not issued a single statement in support of Punjab's waters. We will fight alone," he said....