Local INLD leaders held a meeting on Monday, announcing their support to the farmer's agitation. About 60 workers of the BJP's Haryana unit led by former education minister Ram Vilas Sharma attempted to march towards the SEZ site to express solidarity with the farmers.

They were arrested by the police on the way. On July 4, Kuldip Bishnoi, who broke away from Congress party, joined the agitating farmers and had attempted to organise a rally at the SEZ site in Harsaru village.

Bishnoi, who leads the Haryana Janhit Congress, was arrested along with his supporters and prevented from marching. On Monday, local MLA and former deputy speaker of Haryana Assembly, Gopi Chand Gahlot, announced the launch of a full-fledged stir against the Haryana government.

He said his party would decide on the future course of action in a bigger meeting on July 13 against the state government to oppose transfer of state government's 1,400 acres of land for the Reliance SEZ. Gahlot also condemned police suppression against farmers. "The police have started implicating the farmers in fake criminal case and have registered FIRs to terrorise them.

Many of the farmers have fled their homes and there is curfew-like situation in villages such as Harsaru, Garoli Kala and Garoli Khurd where the state government acquired the land and passed on to Reliance," he said. Umesh Aaggarwal the publicity secretary of the BJP in Haryana, said party leaders have decided to meet on July 18 to oppose the state government on its stand on Reliance SEZ. "We have decided to take the agitation further in support of the farmers whose land was acquired.

Our party opposes the transfer of land to Reliance for SEZ," he added. The working President of the Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee, Kuldeep Sharma, said the government was helping the Haryana State Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation in taking possession of the land because the corporation has 10 per cent equity share in the SEZ. He said by sharing equity, the state government wanted to have its say in matters related to SEZ so it can pressurise entrepreneurs to employ local in the units to be set up there.