New Delhi: The Protesting farmers on the agriculture laws said on Tuesday that they would only discuss certain issues, including modalities of repealing all three laws and providing legal guarantees for MSP. The nationwide protest by irate of farmers has rumbled on for over a month now, with their core demand – the scrapping of the laws and legal support for MSP – unchanged.

The Samyukt Kisan Morcha, a grouping of 40 farmer unions, wrote to the centre Tuesday to accept a fresh invitation to the negotiating table, and also reminding it of its ‘non-negotiable’ demands.  The centre has been equally obstinate – the laws will not be rolled back and it will offer only a written guarantee for MSP.

And in signs that their patience was running out, farmer leaders dismissed a letter from the Agriculture Ministry asking for a list of talking points and said: “Don’t they know our demands?” Meanwhile, Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar and Railways Minister Piyush Goyal met Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday. Sources said they discussed the centre’s strategy ahead of the talks.

The farmers have since held two hunger strikes and a “Bharat bandh” to drive home their point. They have, however, deferred to Thursday a proposed tractor rally.