An umbrella group of 40 farmers unions agitating against the government’s new agri-marketing laws wrote to the Centre on Wednesday and asked it to stop holding “parallel talks” with other farmers’ organisations over the contentious legislations.

The letter, written by ‘Sanyukt Kisan Morcha’ representing farmer unions mostly from Punjab, comes in the backdrop of the government holding talks with multiple agricultural organisations from different states who the Centre claimed have extended their support to the new agriculture laws.

In the letter to Union Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare Joint Secretary Vivek Aggarwal, the Morcha said the Centre should not defame the ongoing demonstrations being held at different borders of Delhi, demanding the repeal of the three laws.

“We want the government to stop defaming farmers' agitation and holding parallel talks with other farmers' organisations,” Darshan Pal, a member of the ‘Sanyukt Kisan Morcha, said in his letter written in Hindi.

Pal also recorded in writing the unions’ decision to reject the Centre’s proposal of amending the laws recently.

“We had already made our stand clear in previous talks (with the government) that's why we did not send a written reply earlier,” he wrote in the letter.

Representatives of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (Kisan) from Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday met Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar and submitted a memorandum with suggestions on the laws and the Minimum Support Price.

The Bharatiya Kisan Union (Kisan), which was protesting at the district levels in Uttar Pradesh, has also decided to end it for now.

They have not been part of the 40 farmers' groups that have been protesting on various borders of the national capital, and they had also attended the recent rounds of talks with the Centre without any breakthrough.

According to an agriculture ministry statement Tuesday, Tomar thanked the BKU (Kisan) leaders for coming out in support of the laws and said these legislations have been welcomed in various states across the country.

Earlier this week, a delegation of over 100 farmers from Uttarakhand had also met Tomar.

On Tuesday, the leaders of agitating farmers asserted they will make the Centre repeal the three new agri laws in a hardening of their stand.

Security arrangements on Wednesday were tightened at the Chilla border connecting Delhi and Noida as farmer union leaders warned of completely blocking the key area to press their demands of repealing the three central farm laws.