Farmers protest live updates: 'Chakka Jam' proved that farmers across India are united, says farmer leader

A feeling of fear and intimidation has been created by the BJP government at the Centre over famers' agitation and it appears that many celebrities are being "forced" to tweet against the movement at "gunpoint," West Bengal minister Bratya Basu said on Friday.

Security at the city's border points near the three protest sites have been tightened by deploying extra forces and putting up multi-layered barricades, barbed wires and nails studded on the roads ahead of the proposed 'chakka jam' by farmers protesting the Centre's three agri laws, police said on Friday.

Asserting that farmers will not settle for anything less than the repeal of the new farm laws, RLD vice president Jayant Chaudhary on Friday said the government's "strong arm tactics" will not work against the tillers and the nails being laid on roads for them would turn out to be the nails in the "political coffin" of the BJP.

Lambasting the opposition over the ongoing farmers' agitation over the three new central farm laws, Union agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Friday told the Rajya Sabha that farmers were "tricked" on the issue and that people of only one state had fallen victims to misunderstanding.

In a vociferous attack on the Centre, Congress leader Pratap Singh Bajwa on Friday compared the barricades set up at the farmers' protest site at Ghazipur with the Berlin Wall and concentration camps, and took a strong objection to farmers being branded as anti-national and Khalistanis."How can farmers trust you," he asked while comparing the farmer agitation sites at Delhi's borders to scenes from Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq and Uganda and not the country of Mahatma Gandhi.

Delhi Police is set to write to Google to get the IP (internet protocol) address or the location from where the 'Toolkit' document was created and uploaded on the social media platform.According to Police sources, this inquiry is being done to identify the authors of the 'Toolkit' which was shared on Google docs.

"Maximum force shall be pulled out from non-operational duties. Intelligence network should be geared up and necessary preventive action may be taken," it reads.