Mandi Deputy Commissioner Apoorv Devgan said on Friday that security forces will be deployed hours after police used water canons to disperse the crowd in Mandi as protests continue in Shimla over the Sanjauli mosque controversy.
In a sharp rebuttal to Lok Sabha MP Asaduddin Owaisi, Himachal Pradesh's Panchayati Raj and Rural Development Minister, Aniruddh Singh accused Owaisi of acting as a "Team-B" for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).