Away from the Delhi borders where farmers have been camping in protest against the farm laws, their counterparts in Punjab and Haryana have expressed their anguish by holding demonstrations in front of the residences of BJP leaders.

On Saturday, groups of villagers held demonstrations in front of the homes of Haryana woman and child development minister Kamlesh Dhanda and Kaithal BJP legislator Leela Ram.

It was the second time Dhanda was facing such a protest. The demonstrators displaced police barricades with their tractor trolleys before reaching the area in front of her residence.

These protests were not isolated as there have been several such incidents in the past few days — a helipad at Parha village in Karnal where chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar was to land was damaged, as was one at Uchana village in Jind where deputy chief minister Dushyant Chautala was to land.

A group of protesters holding black flags were booked after they attempted to block Khattar’s motorcade in Ambala city a week ago.

Most of the about 90 Khaps (village-level social bodies having a strong following) across Haryana are backing the farmers’ movement. The Khap leaders have also been visiting the protest sites at Delhi’s borders with supplies, including of food and milk.

Tulsidas Grewal, the president of the Meham Chaubisi Khap that holds sway over at least five Assembly seats in Rohtak, Jind, Hisar and Bhiwani districts and which is one of the most powerful Khaps in the state, said all the Khaps vehemently support the farmer protest.

Ashok Malik, national general secretary of the Gathawala Khap, and Randhir Saroha, leader of Saroha Khap, aired similar views. Grewal added that several Khaps had announced that they would boycott the visits of ruling BJP-JJP coalition leaders.

In Punjab too, some unidentified people dumped a heap of cow dung outside the residence of state BJP leader Tikshan Sud in Hoshiarpur district on Friday. They raised slogans against the Centre for what they termed as its callous attitude towards the farmers’ demands.

Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh has, however, taken a serious note of the incident and asked the protesters not to take the law into their hands. He said such incidents would bring a bad name to the peaceful agitation of farmers and defeat its purpose.

The protesters belonging to different farmers’ fora have also staged demonstrations in front of the residences of Tarun Chugh, Punjab BJP general secretary, in Amritsar and former BJP minister Anil Joshi in Tarn Taran.