"This government is trying to hold elections as per its blueprint, sensing that the people would not vote for them (coalition) for their immense misdeeds," the Awami League president said, urging people to intensify the opposition movement to prevent any elections without electoral reforms.

Hasina was addressing a workers' rally on the May Day at Mirpur Stadium in the capital, organised by AL workers' front Jatiya Sramik League.

The AL chief said all citizens aged 18 or above should includetheir names in the voter list to ensure their voting right and exercise it in the coming election judiciously.

If voted to power, her party would control prices of essentials, create jobs, ensure minimum wages of workers, arrange housing for garment workers and put an end to 'looting' in industries, she assured people.

Farmers and workers across the country are now in miseries. More than 5,000 mills and factories have been closed and over five lakh workers retrenched during the tenure of the coalition, Hasina said.

"Whenever BNP goes to power, people face distress and disaster due to deterioration in law and order, and crises of electricity, water and other things," she said. "No electricity, no food, no peace and no security" These are the results of alliance government's misrule."

Referring to the prime minister's claim of improvement in law and order, the opposition leader said the killing of a labour leader during his prayers in broad daylight proved the claim was baseless.

Hasina alleged that the coalition rulers are looting people's wealth, hiked prices of essentials through syndicates backed by them and siphoning off crores of taka abroad. A top leader's family members have now become the richest persons in the country through looting.

" We will make them furnish accounts of the money they looted from the people and make that public, if we are voted to power."

The AL chief also asked her partymen to prepare lists of people involved in corruption, terrorism and repression so that they cannot change their colours with the change of government.

Chaired by Sramik League President Abdul Matin Master, the rally was addressed by, among others, AL leaders Abdur Razzak, Suranjit Sengupta, Motia Chowdhury, Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim, Obaidul Quader, Abdur Rahman and Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya.