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Farmer leader Sarwan Singh Pandher demanded that the Modi government should bring an ordinance granting a legal guarantee to Minimum Support Price (MSP).

"You cap-wearing people (referring to cops) can't stop us. We will chop off your heads...We will crush you with our hands," a farmer 'protester' was heard threatening the police.

Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu, recently released from jail, has been trying to hit two birds with one stone using the farmer's protests to draw a division between states.

The Modi government has taken numerous initiatives to assist farmers over the last ten years, ranging from MSP to fertiliser subsidies. Fertiliser subsidies have nearly tripled, while the agricultural budget has increased fourfold.

Haryana government has announced the extension of internet shutdown in districts including Ambala, Kurukshetra, Kaithal, Jind, Hisar, Fatehabad and Sirsa tomorrow in view of the 'Delhi Chalo' march by the farmers.

Ten protest sites have been finalised for the rail roko protest by farmers, in which the BKU Ugrahan and BKU Dakaunda (Dhaner faction) would participate together.

Protesting farmers take a CID official hostage because they believed he was accumulating information regarding them.

The decision to join the farmers' protest in Delhi comes amidst ongoing agitation from Punjab farmers, planning to march to the national capital to press for various demands

The posters raised by the COBI members read “Industries and workers of Bahadurgarh humbly request our farmer brothers not to gather and take away our means of livelihood (Bahdurgarh ke udyogon aur karmchariyon kii taraf se kisan bhaiyon se vinamra prarthna hai ki yahan ekatrit hokar hamare pait par laat na maarein).

According to the intelligence report, around 1,500 tractors and 500 vehicles have been mobilised for the farmers' protest in Punjab alone. These tractors have been modified to convert them into shelters and stays.