Gurdwaras in Delhi on Thursday offered to provide accommodation while AAP volunteers offered food to thousands of farmers, who have converged in national capital from across the country, for a two-day protest that includes a march from Ramlila Maidan to Parliament.

Five Gurdwaras in the Delhi region have extended their help to the farmers. Bangla Sahib Gurdwara, Sisganj Sahib, Rakabganj, Bap Sahib and Manju Ka Tila will provide accommodation to farmers for the night, All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) leader Atul Anjaan.

However, majority of the farmers will stay at Ramlila Maidan in tents, he said.

He added that Delhi Jal Board will provide them water tanks and AAP local MLAs will give food packets.

The leader also said that AAP volunteers have put up tents in large numbers at Anand Vihar station for farmers who arrived there. They also gave snacks and water to farmers.

Volunteers, including doctors, lawyers, professors and artists, all came out in large numbers to help. Around 600-700 volunteers of a solidarity group Nation For Farmers marched with the farmers from four assembly points -Bijwasan, Majnu Ka Tila, Nizamuddin and Anand Vihar towards Ramlila Maidan.

Under their campaign, Dilli Chalo, they mobilised support for the march. A cultural programme was held at Ramlila Ground in the evening.

Hoping to make themselves heard in the power centre of the nation, nearly one lakh farmers on Thursday began a two-day protest, backed by the Left, to press their demands including debt relief and remunerative prices for their produce.

The farmers, who converged at Ramlila Ground in the capital and will march to Parliament Street on Friday, came from different corners of the country, including Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh.

Delhi Police said it will deploy over 3,500 personnel for the protest.

Banded under the All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee (AIKSCC), which claims to be an umbrella body of 207 organisations of farmers and agricultural workers, many of the farmers came in trains and other packed into buses and other modes of transport.

At Ramlila Maidan, it was a sea of red as farmers wearing caps and flags gathered, with some of them arriving here after completing a long journey of as long as 36 hours. The Maidan resonated with slogans of 'Ayodhya nahi, Karzi maaf chahiye (We dont need Ayodhya but debt waiver').

The AIKSCC was formed under the aegis of All India Kisan Sabha and other Left-affiliated farmers' bodies in June 2017, after protests by farmers in states like Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh for debt relief and remunerative prices.

Delhi Police said they have made elaborate arrangements for the rally on Friday when the farmers will begin their march from Ramlila Ground to Parliament Street. Support for the farmers poured in with activists taking to Twitter to ask the general public to join the march.

(With PTI inputs)