A meeting between home minister Amit Shah and key farmers’ representatives on Tuesday failed to break the impasse over the new agri laws, but the agitating farmers’ unions agreed to hold a meeting at Singhu border on Wednesday to consider fresh proposals from the Centre and decide whether to renew negotiations. As a result, the scheduled sixth round of talks may not take place on Wednesday. After the meeting concluded, All India Kisan Sabha leader Hannan Mollah said the Centre was not ready to take back the farm laws. While this had been conveyed even earlier by Union ministers Narendra Tomar and Piyush Goyal, the message being amplified by Shah carries a degree of finality even as he heard the farmers patiently. Shah is understood to have offered a written assurance that the minimum support price (MSP) regime will not be scrapped while explaining that retention of the APMC system was not connected to the laws. The Centre has also conveyed its preparedness to strengthen the mandi system.