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Ershad meets Pranab

Raises Teesta deal issue

Our Correspondent, New Delhi
Jatiya Party (JP) Chairman HM Ershad yesterday told Indian President Pranab Mukherjee that the signing of Teesta watersharing treaty would enhance Bangladesh people's trust in India.
As Bangladesh is getting water from Teesta, a formal agreement would institutionalise the arrangement, he also told Mukherjee.
Ershad was briefing the representatives of the Bangladesh media after a nearly 30-minute meeting with the Indian president at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi.
The issue of Tipaimukh dam and implementation of land boundary agreement between India and Bangladesh also figured in Ershad's talks.
The JP leader said Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, whom he had met on Tuesday last, is "very keen" that the Teesta accord is signed and the land boundary agreement becomes a reality.
Ershad said he briefed Mukherjee about the political situation in Bangladesh and the future of parliamentary elections in his country due next year.
Mukherjee, according to Ershad, said India wanted the coming elections in Bangladesh to be free and fair, and the country's democratic institutions to be strengthened further.
Ershad said the same view was echoed earlier by the Indian premier when the two had met earlier.
Ershad felicitated Mukherjee on his election as Indian president and told him that the people of Bangladesh wanted to see him occupy the country's lop post.
The JP chief told Mukherjee that when he was elected president, there were celebrations in Bangladesh's Narail district to which the Indian president's in-laws belonged.
While Ershad had sought a meeting with Congress party chief and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, it did not materialise, sources said.
"I am not meeting Sonia Gandhi," he said in reply to a question from the reporters.
Soon after his arrival in New Delhi on Monday last, Ershad had also met India's National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon and Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai.
India's National Defence College, where Ershad was the first Bangladeshi student in early 1970s, hosted a dinner for him yesterday.
Ershad had also visited Ajmer on Wednesday and Thursday, and is set to return home this morning.