Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal meets AAP leaders outside his residence for about ten minutes.

Chandigarh, Chandigarh Police stopped nearly 15,000 Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) activists near the Mohali-Chandigarh border on Monday as they tried to march towards the residence of Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal here to protest against the alleged Rs 12,000-crore foodgrain scam in the state, rampant corruption and alleged failure of the state government to curb the drug racket.Ahead of the proposed protest, Section 144 has been imposed in Chandigarh as a precautionary measure. The area around the residences of the Chief Minister and his son and Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal in Sector 2 was completely sealed with barricades. Scores of police personnel, many of them in anti-riot gear, were deployed in the area.Chandigarh Police also stationed its personnel around the Haryana Raj Bhawan, the official residence of Haryana and Punjab governor Kaptan Singh Solanki, in Sector 6. Security was also upped near the Rose Garden Chowk and the Sector 7-8 diving road to prevent AAP protesters from proceeding close to the VIP residences.Meanwhile, Badal has cancelled all his official engagements for Monday to receive AAP leaders who wish to protest outside his official residence. “The chief minister has cancelled all his engagements for Monday, including the sangat darshan at Dirba in Sangrur. He will instead be available at his residence to receive any political leader or representative for discussion on any issue concerning the state’s people,” Badal’s spokesman said here.“The doors of my house remain open 24 hours a day to hear people and their representatives and to address their problems,” the Chief Minister earlier said in a statement. Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal meets AAP leaders outside his residence for about ten minutes.