He said: "Rahul Gandhi wasn't only supporting the protest but also instigating. It was the same during CAA, Congress holds rallies, they instigate people to take to streets and agitation begins next day. It happened during this agitation too. They instigated farmers."
Javadekar said the Punjab government did not make any preventive arrests despite indications that there could be trouble during the rally.
"When some farmer leaders had said on 26th that it's final match, Punjab govt should have monitored the tractors leaving from the state and made preventive arrests of habitual criminals," Javadekar said.
Earlier, Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala accused the Modi government of being part of a concerted conspiracy to malign the farmers' agitation by allowing some miscreants to enter the Red Fort complex and hoist a religious flag.