7.34 am: Farmers continue to camp at Singhu border located between Haryana and Delhi, as protests against the new agricultural laws enter the 12th day.

7.31 am: Thousands of people protested in central London on Sunday over the Indian government’s agricultural reforms that have triggered a massive demonstration by farmers, reports PTI. The Metropolitan Police said that 13 people in total were arrested for breach of Covid-19 regulations. Four of them were subsequently released after they provided their details to officers and were issued a fine. The other nine remain in custody.

A crowd of demonstrators converged on the Indian embassy, located on Aldwych, a major artery in the centre of the British capital, and groups marched around the Trafalgar Square area, a Reuters photographer at the scene said.

Demonstrators gesture from a vehicle as British Sikhs protest against new farming legislation, in London. (Credit: Toby Melville/Reuters)

7.20 am: The Bharatiya Janata Party leader also posts the party manifesto of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam from 2016, which talked about facilitating farmers to sell their produce without middlemen. “Now the leader has given a call to support [the Bharat] Bandhi,” of December 8, he says. “Hypocrites of the worst order. Expose every one of them.”

7.16 am: Bharatiya Janata Party leader BL Santhosh accuses farmers protesting against the newly passed agricultural laws of being hypocritical about their stance. In a tweet, Santhosh shares a newspaper clippings of farmers in Punjab and Haryana from 2008, demanding that corporations be allowed access to agricultural markets and buy their produce, which is what one of the Centre’s three new laws allows.

“This was in 2008,” he writes. “Farmers of Punjab and Haryana demanding allowing of corporates in agri marketing. Just understand the duplicity of the same unions now.”

7.09 am: Here are the top updates from Sunday