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Okay, I figured out the answer to this myself. What happens is, ROS interactive manipulation stops the controllers. So in order to regain control of PR2 one should restart the controllers using the following command:

rosrun pr2_controller_manager pr2_controller_manager start <controller_name>

In my case the controller_name = r_arm_controller

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