Dinesh Gundu Rao of Congress in a tweet said, "Independent India is witnessing what the British Rulemust’ve been like during the Freedom Struggle. @narendramodi is the modern dayViceroy Chelmsford and @AmitShah is General Dyer."
Rao shared an article ofNDTV, "No permission for farmer Mahapanchayat in UP's Shamli," in thetweet.
There is a growing angeron Twitter after Rihanna and Greta Thunberg also tweeted in solidarity withfarmers protesting around the borders of Delhi.
Meanwhile, the Supremecourt has put the implementation of laws on hold while the union government hasalso offered to put the laws in abeyance for 18 months. The farmers hadrejected this offer because they wanted repeal of laws.
Now the police haveresorted to cementing metal spikes on the grounds, barbed wires on the wallsand barricading to stop the entry of new farmers and it has also been learntthat some members of the Press were not allowed to enter the protest site.