Amid farmers' protest, over 4,000 policemen were deployed in Gurgaon and Haryana  to stop the farmers from occupying highways as farmers have pledged to intensify their agitation. Now farmers plan to block the Jaipur National Highway-8, which passes through Gurgaon, as part of their protest, to cope up with this Delhi Police on Sunday stepped up vigil on the national capital’s border with Haryana. The city police on Saturday had made elaborate security arrangements by deploying additional personnel and placing more concrete barriers after the farmer organisations announced their Delhi Chalo march from neighbouring states of Rajasthan and Haryana.

The union leaders on Saturday said they were ready to hold talks with the government provided they discussed repealing the three new farm laws.  before anything else. “We will not refuse a meeting with the government,” Kanwalpreet Singh Pannu, president of the Kisan Sangharsh Committee, Punjab, said. “If the government wants to have a discussion, we are ready for that. But our main demand is that the three laws be scrapped… Until these laws are repealed, we will not go onto the fourth or fifth demand,” he added, while addressing a press conference at the Singhu on the Delhi-Haryana border.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear three petitions related to the farmers' protest. One of the petitions - filed by a student from Delhi - says the protests are blocking emergency health services needed to tackle the coronavirus pandemic