The fourth round of talks between the Governor's Panel and the group leading the agitation in Jammu over the Amarnath land row began on Saturday night amid reports that a peace formula was on the table to end the over two-month old crisis.

But even before the fineprint of the formula could be made public, the Shri Amarnath Sangarsh Samiti(SASS) appeared to be in no mood to go back on its core demand for restoration of the land to the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB) if the comments of its leaders before the talks were any indication.

The government is understood to have offered control of 40 hectares of land to the Shrine Board during the yatra period where temporary structures could be erected and later dismantled at the end of the two month long pilgrimage.

Ahead of the talks, the Samiti also said any solution should also give the shrine board exclusive control of the land during the yatra. There was no official word on any peace formula being worked out. The talks which was deferred twice in the last two days was delayed by a few hours.

The Samiti said its stand on restoration of land and related issues has been conveyed to the panel during the earlier meetings and claimed there was no response so far.

Samiti's convenor Leela Karan Sharma said that there is no question of reversing its stand communicated to the panel regarding restoration of land to the Shrine board during the previous three meetings.

On reports of peace formula doing the rounds, Sharma said, "I do not have any peace formula and talks are going on between us and the government. So where is the question of such a proposal."

Earlier, Narindra Singh, Samiti spokesperson said, "The transfer of land to the board should be complete during the yatra. The restoration of the land that was taken away by the Government's order should be done."