Nangal/Chandigarh, May 9 -- / The already volatile water-sharing dispute between Punjab and Haryana reached a dramatic flashpoint on Thursday as Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann rushed to the Bhakra Beas Management Board (BBMB) headquarters in Nangal to personally intervene and block what he termed the "unauthorized and illegal" release of 200 cusecs of water to Haryana. Mann's visit came hours after Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) workers, led by Punjab Education Minister Harjot Singh Bains, surrounded the BBMB chairman Manoj Tripathi and locked him inside the Sutlej Sadan rest house for nearly three hours. The protest was sparked by reports that BBMB officials had attempted to forcibly release water to Haryana from the Nangal Dam the previous ni...
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