New Delhi, Dec. 12 -- Seventeen days in, the ongoing protests are all set to intensify as the farmers look to block the Delhi-Jaipur border on Saturday. Two thousand policemen are on duty in Gurgaon and 3,500 policemen are deployed at Faridabad to stop the protesters, officials have said. The two cities in Haryana share borders with Delhi.

So far, farmers closed two toll plazas on the highway-Shambhu in Ambala and Bastara in Karnal-and there is a free-toll, until 12 am tonight. The number of farmers is bound to increase as more and more farmers are leaving to join the Delhi teams. Several farmers have begun their journey from Kurukshetra, ANI reported.

As a part of the escalation, yet another nation-wide protest is planned on December 1...