"Give us the details of what you will do to make the atmosphere suitable for a fair election. Please resign from post of the chief adviser and appoint someone else if you cannot work neutrally. Otherwise the people will have to take measures against you," Hasina said while addressing a teachers' national convention in Dhaka Engineers' Institute Auditorium.

She also said leaders and cadres of BNP-Jamaat alliance gobbled up crores of taka during the last five-year tenure of the alliance in power and now they want to steal votes by keeping Iajuddin at the forefront.

AL-led 14-party coalition has given Iajuddin enough time to take initiatives for creating an atmosphere for a fair election, and considering the sufferings the people had to endure during the recent blockades, Iajuddin has misused the time, she added.

"We are not in politics to make people suffer. We demonstrate to establish the people's fundamental right of voting," she also said adding that the power of the people is the highest power and Awami League along with the people will wipe out all kinds of conspiracies and blueprints for election engineering.

She said Iajuddin failed to maintain the dignity of teachers by kowtowing to BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia's diktats.

"Iajuddin's statements and actions do not conform to each other. He says one thing but does another. How can he work neutrally if he accepts Khaleda Zia as his master? It is very disgraceful for the community of teachers because he used to be a teacher at Dhaka University," Sheikh Hasina said.

She claimed that literacy rate in the country did not increase in the last five years due to the immediate past government's negligence towards eradicating illiteracy and now the literacy rate has declined to 61 percent from the earlier rate of 74 percent.

"Question papers of medical college admission tests, BCS examinations under Public Service Commission (PSC), and even appointment tests of primary school teachers had been leaked out by the loyalists of BNP-Jamaat alliance but Iajuddin did not taken any step against them," she said.

The National Front of Teachers and Employees (NFTE) organised the national convention on 'repression on teachers during BNP-Jamaat alliance government's tenure', where teachers who had been 'deprived' in the last five years, participated.

NFTE Chief Co-ordinator also Convener Prof Quazi Farruque disclosed the names of 11 top brasses of the education sector and 15 former BNP-Jammaat legislators who had carried out different types of repressions on teachers in the last five years.

He said NFTE will arrange an international conference very soon where around 300 organisations of teachers from different countries will be invited to participate.

Eleven 'deprived' teachers from different parts of the country narrated at the convention their experiences of repression in the hands of the leaders and cadres of BNP-Jamaat alliance.

Dhaka University Teachers Association General Secretary Dr Akhtaruzzaman, its former president AAMS Arefin Siddique, former Dhaka University vice-chancellor AK Azad Chowdhury, AL Education Affairs Secretary Nurul Islam Nahid also addressed the convention among others.