SAD President held with supporters at Kotkapura

Faridkot, Sep 17 (UNI) Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) president and former MP Simranjeet Singh Mann was taken into police custody at Kotkapura alongwith 150 party workers as a preventive step.

According to police sources, the step was taken to avert a possible clash between SAD (A) and SAD (Badal), which was holding a political conference at village Guru Ki Dhan in the adjoining Bathinda district.

Mr Mann and his supporters were heading for the village when they were stopped by the police.

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