The AL will launch the mass movement after the expiry of deadline for meeting the demands.

"Our demands are very clear as it reflects people's aspirations. If you (government) fail to meet those, we will enforce an all-out democratic movement," Hasina said while exchanging views with a delegation of teachers at the party's Dhanmondi office.

The leaders of Bangladesh Teachers' Association, Bangladesh College-University Teachers' Association, United Front of Teachers and Employees of Bangladesh and Bangladesh Non-government Primary Teachers' Association met the opposition leader.

Elaborating the demands, the AL chief said, "We have placed the demands and given time to the government in a democratic way."

Hasina said the demands were placed to save the country and its people from a suffocating situation. The government has lost its right to power in only two years of rule as it failed to meet people's expectations, she added.

The opposition leader also alleged that the ruling alliance men amassed crores of taka through corruption and siphoned those out of the country.

She pledged to realise all the money embezzled by the government and return those to people.

Hasina accused the ruling loyalists of damaging every sector, including education sector, through politicisation and nepotism. "Teachers of different educational institutions, including universities, are being persecuted by ruling party men."

Terming the BNP-led coalition 'a government without confidence', the AL president said, "They are aware of the fact that people did not vote them to power. So they have resorted to repression on the AL leaders and workers in a bid to eliminate the opposition."

She urged the teachers as well as commonman to unite against the misrule of the government and launch a tough movement to realise the 15-point demand.

Criticising the government decision to close down several thousand satellite and community schools, Hasina said the government was shrinking the scope of primary education while encouraging private universities at the same time.

She said, "The previous government of the Awami League had a goal to eradicate illiteracy by 2006, but now the goal is a far cry due to wrong policies of the present government."

Alleging distortion of liberation war history in textbooks, the opposition leader said, "Many countries of the world taught history of our glorious War of Liberation objectively, but it is a shame for the nation that we are teaching distorted history."

The AL chief expressed solidarity with the demands and movement of the teachers.

M Shahjahan, M Akhteruzzaman, Kazi Faruk Ahmed, Abu Bakar Siddique, Asadul Haq, Sufia Khatun, MA Sattar, Matiur Rahman, M Mansur Ali, M Jahir Uddin and Mafiz Uddin also spoke.