Overview

• The Punjab and Haryana High Court has restrained Punjab from interfering in the Bhakra Beas Management Board's (BBMB) operations and directed compliance with water release orders to Haryana.
• Punjab's Education Minister Harjot Singh Bains locked BBMB chairman Manoj Tripathi in the Nangal dam guest house, with Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann backing the protest.
• Punjab asserts that Haryana has already exceeded its water allocation and opposes the release of additional water, citing riparian rights and local water scarcity.
• The Union Home Ministry had instructed BBMB to release 4,500 cusecs of additional water to Haryana for eight days, a directive Punjab continues to resist.
• Opposition leaders and Haryana officials condemned Punjab's actions, calling for central intervention and adherence to judicial rulings to resolve the escalating conflict.