Farmers protesting at the borders of Delhi against three central agri-marketing laws have called for a countrywide shutdown on Tuesday, saying they will block all roads leading to the capital, amid a deadlock with the Centre.

Addressing a press conference, Bharatiya kisan Union (BKU) leader Gurnam Singh Chadoni said if the Centre does not accept their demands during Saturday's talks, they will intensify their agitation against the new farm laws.

“In our meeting today, we have decided to give a 'Bharat Bandh' call on December 8 during which we will also occupy all toll plazas,” another farmer leader Harvinder Singh Ladkhwal said after a meeting on Friday.

“We have planned to block all roads leading to Delhi in the coming days if new farm laws are not scrapped,” he added.

“More people will join our movement,” Lakhowal was quoted as saying by NDTV.

The farmers representatives said that during their talks with the government, they asked for the repeal of the three new laws, which they think will leave them at the mercy of big industrial players.

The farmers, who faced a crackdown at the Haryana border from the state police last week, said they will burn effigies on Saturday, NDTV reported.

"We see the government agreeing to our demands on Minimum Support Price, electricity and penalties for stubble burning but we won't stop till the laws are repealed," Jamhoori Kisan Sabha's Punjab President Satnam Singh Ajnala, told NDTV.

On Thursday, a group of representatives of the farmers refused the lunch offered by the government during their fourth round of talks and stuck to their demand for repeal of the three new farm laws, rejecting offers of amendments.

During the first two meetings, the government met only farmers’ unions from Punjab, which were at the forefront of the agitation.

But since farmers from five north Indian states converged on Delhi's borders in response to the All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee’s “Dilli Chalo” call for November 26 and 27, they insisted and got the government to invite their national-level collectives.

The farmers refused government hospitality during the talks at Vigyan Bhavan. Lunch was brought for them from the nearby Gurudwara Bangla Sahib, and they ate standing or sitting on the floor in the dining area of Vigyan Bhavan. Tea too was brought from outside for them.

“We cannot be sitting down for a sumptuous meal offered by the government when our farming community is out on the street,” a farmer leader explained.