Chandigarh, Oct. 13 -- Chief minister Bhagwant Mann on Monday said his government will pursue every legal and constitutional avenue to secure the release of Sikh prisoners.

In a meeting with the Qaumi Insaaf Morcha and other Sikh organisations, he announced that the government had assured the Centre and the governor that law and order would be maintained if Jagtar Singh Hawara, convicted for the 1995 assassination of then Punjab chief minister Beant Singh, was granted parole to meet his ailing mother, but the Centre had still not approved it.

The morcha has been protesting for the release of Sikh prisoners on the Mohali-Chandigarh border since January 2023.

Urging the organisations to keep their struggle peaceful, Mann said he will tak...