BANGLADESH

Ruling Awami League's ally Jatiya Party's chairman has held a meeting with the prime minister, a day after he announced 'going solo'.

A source within the party told bdnews24.com on Sunday that chairman H M Ershad in the hour-long meeting at Sheikh Hasina's official residence Ganabhaban assured the Grand Alliance leader his party was staying in the fold.

This comes a day after Ershad's announcement at a programme in Rajshahi that Jatiya Party would 'no longer help anyone win elections'.

"In the future, the party will attend elections on its own," he had said.

At the meeting, the prime minister brought up Ershad's statement, the source said.

Ershad replied, "Everyone has to do their own politics. Everyone does politics to retain their existence."

"But I'm still with the Grand Alliance and wish to go to the polls with it," he said.

The prime minister said her government was taking all the necessary measures to curb inflation, in reply to Ershad's queries about inflation.