"Our opposition party is today frustrated seeing the way development activities have been carried out in the last three and a half years by the BNP-led coalition government. People will cast votes in the next elections in favour of development, welfare of people and peace," she told a public meeting at Harinakundo in Jhenidah.

The prime minister said people will thwart all conspiracies of the opposition the way they had elected the BNP and its allies in the last general elections.

"People all over the country are now united behind the four-party alliance and not with those who tell a lie, spread propaganda against the country, plunder public

property and unleash chaos and anarchy," she said.

The opposition party has understood it and so has become involved in conspiracies, she told her audience in the southwestern frontier district.

The prime minister said Bangladesh will emerge as a self-reliant country without needing the assistance of anybody if the BNP-led alliance returns to power.

Health Minister Khandokar Mosharraf Hossain, Environment Minister Tariqul Islam, BNP leader Sarwari Rahman, Prime Minister's Political Secretary Harris

Chowdhury and local MP Mashiur Rahman, among others, addressed the meeting.