Union leaders do not appear ready to give up on their core demands — repeal of laws and legal guarantee to minimum support price (MSP) —and some of them feel that their protests are acquiring a larger dimension. The unions will in any case want to wait to see how opposition parties take up the stir in the Budget session, which begins on Friday. The likely stand of the Central government, which has so far been at pains to signal its flexibility to amend the laws — short of repeal — was not clear though BJP leaders were taken aback by the violence. The government and BJP offered no word on the violence, with sources saying the priority was to restore law and order. The government seemed to expect the televised events to hurt the protest, while the proceedings in the Supreme Court, which had asked if the rally would be peaceful, could also see the Centre spelling out its stand.