Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday took on BJP leader LK Advani in the Lok Sabha to reject the latter?s charge that India was talking to Pakistan under US pressure and was altering its position on Jammu and Kashmir.

?You are using this forum to sow seeds??, Singh said, underlining that he had refrained from completing the sentence. The PM intervened after Advani charged that there was a change in the US?s stand on Indo-Pak relations ever since President Barack Obama took charge.

?What you are attributing to President Obama is certainly not true. I had a number of discussions with President Obama and there is no change in US policy?, Singh shot back amid applause from party members. Advani was speaking on the motion of thanks on the president?s address.

Singh countered Advani more than twice and termed the questions being raised by him as ?hypothetical?.

To Advani?s demand that Parliament should be taken into confidence about all parleys with Pakistan, Prime Minister Singh shot back: ?How many times did Jaswant Singh have secret talks with Strobe Talbot? Did you tell Parliament about it? Why are you insisting that I should answer your hypothetical questions??

Advani alleged that the US was putting pressure to win the battle in Afghanistan. ?The road to peace in Kabul goes through Kashmir?, Advani said, quoting reports that mention ?secret back channel talks? between India and Pakistan before the 26/11 Mumbai attack.

?Agar koi gopniya samjhauta Kashmir ke bare me ho raha hai to bahut gambhir hai? (If some secret deal is being done over Kashmir then it is very dangerous), Advani said, recalling an unanimous resolution passed by the House in 1994 that J&K was an integral part of India. Advani said that the Indo-Pak foreign secretary-level talks had not yielded anything and thereby proved that there was no use in talking.

The PM sought to set the record straight on another occasion when Advani charged the government with failing to fulfill its promise of ?one rank one pension? for the armed forces. ?Whatever the government promised has been implemented?, Singh said.

Opposition outrage, no debate on fuel price hike

Parliament met on Wednesday on a stormy note after the four-day Holi break with the combined Opposition stalling the pre-lunch proceedings on the issue of the fuel price hike. Trouble erupted the moment the presiding officers took up Question Hour. Members belonging to the NDA, Left parties, SP, BSP, BJD, RLD and RJD trooped into the well forcing the adjournment of both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha twice, first till 12 noon and later till 2 pm.

In Rajya Sabha, the Opposition argued that it was improper on the part of the PM to rule out any roll-back outside the House when Parliament was in session.

When the House was reconvened at 12 pm for Zero Hour, CPI(M)?s Sitaram Yechury sought to know whether the PM?s statement in a ?foreign land? ruling out a rollback constituted a breach of privilege of the House. ?

In the Lok Sabha, SP and RJD MPs took the lead in walking into the well as soon as the proceedings began. Speaker Meira Kumar pleaded with them to let Question Hour begin, to no avail.

Meanwhile, members belonging to the BJP, BSP, BJD, JD(U), Shiv Sena, Akali Dal and RLD also came into the well. As full-throated slogan-shouting began, the Speaker adjourned the House till noon.