Kurukshetra (Haryana): A ‘mahapanchayat’ here on Friday threatened to step up the agitation for the arrest of BJP MP and Wrestling Federation of India chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, and bring the protesting wrestlers again to Delhi’s Jantar Mantar, if the government doesn’t act within a week.

Bhartiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait invoked the 2020-21 farmers’ protest that forced the Centre to repeal three laws, and said farmers will take “these children” to Delhi’s Jantar Mantar on June 9.

This is the site where the Delhi police said the wrestlers will not be allowed again to protest, after the confrontation last Sunday when demonstrators tried to march from there to the

new Parliament building. The BKU leader also announced a “big panchayat” at Shamli in Uttar Pradesh on June 11 if Singh, accused of sexually harassing female wrestlers, is not arrested, and more meetings from June 15 to 18 in Haridwar.

“If nothing happens even then, panchayats will continue across the country,” he said.

Referring to the farmers’ agitation against the now repealed laws, he said, “Now too we will hold panchayats across the country – like we did at that time. The entire country is with the wrestlers on this issue.”

Hours before the ‘khap mahapanchayat’, largely represented by farmer outfits, Union Sports Minister Anurag Thakur said everyone wants justice for the wrestlers, but only after the due process of law.

As details from the two FIRs registered against the outgoing WFI chief surfaced, Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra slammed the Centre over its “inaction”.

Members of the 1983 World Cup winning cricket team too came out in support of the wrestlers.

The BJP MP, meanwhile, postponed his own show of strength in Ayodhya, after the local administration refused permission to hold a rally there on June 5.