New Delhi: The agitating farmers rejected Union home minister Amit Shah’s proposal for an early discussion on their grievances, conditional to their moving to a designated protest site. The Punjab farmers staging protests in New Delhi against the farm laws which was brought by Union Government in the last parliament session.

The farmers said the Government should have approached with “an open heart” and not put preconditions. Swaraj India Chief Yogendra Yadav is one of the participant among the seven committee member of the farmers, said the committee will take a decision to turn down the offer.

He also said the farmers would sit on the borders of Delhi for now, the Government is imposing the conditions on the talks is not correct. The farmers committee said that the Government should “stop laying down any conditions… should stop assuming that the dialogue can be about “an explanation to farmers about the benefits of the Acts” and should come straight out with a proposal”.

“The force deployment all over the city is creating an atmosphere of terror and apprehension amongst the protesting farmers and the people of Delhi,” the farmers said. The farmers fear that the protest spots the Government is suggesting can become jails – a concern that started after the Delhi Police suggestion that they be jailed in stadiums. The Aravind Kejriwal Government had turned down the proposal, saying the protesters were Delhi’s “guests”.

On Saturday, Union Home Minister Amit Shah had assured the protesters that the Government was ready to deliberate on “every problem and demand”.  The Centre, he said, will hold talks with the farmers’ unions on December 3 and if they want discussions before that, they will have to shift their protest to a designated venue.

At Delhi-Haryana border near Narela, the farmers meanwhile, broke police barricades to enter the national capital. Raising slogans and carrying flags, the farmers managed to get through the barricades on tractors, cars, motorcycles, and on foot as the police personnel deployed at the spot watched.

After battling water cannons, tear gas and police barricades for three days during the journey through Haryana, thousands of farmers had reached Delhi borders on Friday. Those who managed to enter the city are camping at a ground in North Delhi. Others remained at the border. Thousands of farmers, living in trucks, tractors and other vehicles, refused to budge at the Singhu and Tikri borders.