Punjab CM Mann To Meet Union Home Minister Amit Shah In Delhi

Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann is expected to meet Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Delhi on Thursday, official sources said in Chandigarh.
    
The meeting comes against the backdrop of the Ajnala incident in which self-styled Sikh preacher and Khalistani sympathiser Amritpal Singh and his supporters, carrying swords and guns, clashed with police at a police station in Amritsar for the release of one of his aides.
    
Six police personnel, including a superintendent of police-rank officer, were injured in the clash last week.
    
Mann will meet the Union home minister on Thursday, the sources said, refusing to divulge the agenda of the meeting.
    
The AAP government in Punjab is under fire from opposition parties over the alleged deteriorating law-and-order situation in the state.
    
While the BJP has demanded the governor's rule in the state, the Punjab Congress has sought the arrest of Amritpal Singh and his supporters for attacking police personnel in Ajnala.
    
However, Chief Minister Mann, who also holds the home affairs portfolio, had earlier said his government would maintain law and order in the state and no one will be allowed to disturb its hard-earned peace.
    
Referring to Punjab's militancy period, Mann said that the state and its people had suffered a lot due to the black days in the past and they only want peace and progress.
    
Mann also said that though some "fissiparous forces" were continuously trying to derail the peace and progress of the state, their nefarious designs would not be allowed to succeed.