Mansa: Sensing a big gathering at Mansa after the killing of anti-drug activist Parminder Singh Jhota, police on Wednesday started barricading the Barnala-Mansa road and some others and parked loaded tipper-trucks on the roadside as a back-up.It has been learnt that heavy police force has been requisitioned and deployed at Mansa and on the way.Those travelling on the road are being stopped and asked for the purpose of travelling on the road. Buses are also not plying as a number of passengers at Handiaya Chowk said they had been waiting for buses for long, but none arrived.A day after Jhota was killed in Mansa on Tuesday, a large number of activists assembled in the Punjab town and called upon the people of Punjab to reach the town, backing the call for a Punjab bandh on Oct 15.Similar barricading had been done after Gulzar Singh, the father of a drug addict man, had died by suicide at Toor Banzara village in Sangrur on Sept 7. Senior functionaries of BJP, including state president Kewal Singh Dhillon, had to walk a long distance at the time to reach Gulzar Singh’s residence.Congress state president Pargat Singh had reached Mansa and addressed a rally during the day.
