With farmers of at least three states laying siege to Delhi borders in protest against the three Central farm laws, the opposition parties in Uttar Pradesh on Sunday hit out at the Centre, asking it to reconsider these laws.

“The farmers of the country are angry and agitated over the three farm laws enacted recently by the Centre. It would be better if the Centre reconsiders these laws enacted without forging any consensus with farmers,” Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati said in a tweet in Hindi on Sunday.

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav too flayed the Centre, accusing it of seeking to mortgage the country to the rich.

“Insulting farmers by calling them terrorists is the worst face of the Bharatiya Janata Party. The BJP, which favours the rich, is conspiring to mortgage farms, farming, small business, trading, roads, transportation and everything else to the rich,” Yadav also said in a tweet in Hindi.

“If the farmers are terrorists for the BJP, the BJP leaders and workers should pledge not to consume the food grown by them,” he added. For the past two days, thousands of farmers from Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh have been laying siege to different borders of the national capital in protest against the Central farm laws.

Farmers protesting against the Centre’s three farm laws have been expressing fears that these laws would lead to the dismantling of the minimum support price system, leaving them at the mercy of big corporates.

Seeking to allay the farmers’’ fears, the Centre has been insisting that these newly enacted laws would give farmers greater market access across the country and increase their income.