New Delhi, Dec. 9 -- Hours after the central government sent a draft proposal to amend farm laws, the protesting farmer unions on Wednesday evening announced that they reject the proposals. The unions said that the protests shall now be intensified.

"The draft proposals are vague," the leaders said in a press conference at Singhu border. "We shall intensify the protests from now on. On December 14, a nation-wide protest will be taken up and the borders to the capital city Delhi will be blocked, one after another," Darshan Pal, President of Krantikari Kisan Union said.

In the press conference, the farmer unions have also threatened to gherao BJP offices and hold sit-ins across the country on December 14. They also called for a boycott of...