Mulayam, Amar meet Manmohan Singh

Samajwadi Party leaders met PM, who informed them about the G-8 summit and also "assured" them that the Iran gas pipeline project would not be compromised.

Samajwadi Party leaders Mulayam Singh Yadav and Amar Singh met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday, who informed them about the G-8 summit and also "assured" them that the Iran gas pipeline project would not be compromised.

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"Earlier when India used to go to the developed G-8 countries, there used to be many restrictions on India on security issues ... The Prime Minister told Mulayam Singhji that now -- whether it was Hu Jintao of China, Nicholas Sarkozy of France or Gordon Brown of England -- among the G-8 countries the respect for India has increased and they are treating her as a powerful country," Amar Singh told reporters after the SP leaders met the Prime Minister.

"The Prime Minister told us that the world is now looking at India with a new attitude," Amar Singh said.

He alleged that mis-information was being spread that the Prime Minister was compromising on the Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline issue.