Dhaka, Dec 26: Charging Bangladesh's ruling BNP-Jamaat coalition with corruption and supporting terrorists, opposition leader Sheikh Hasina today urged all democratic forces in the country to unite and oust the present government. "The people in the 15-month rule of this incapable, corrupt and terrorists' government have realised that it has to be toppled," Hasina, president of the main opposition Awami League, said inaugurating the 19th triennial council of the party here.

Addressing party members in a make-shift auditorium at Paltan Maidan here, she said "all democratic forces should unite forgetting their petty differences in greater national interest to oust the evil forces."

The oppressive Khaleda Zia-led government had to be dislodged to put democracy and development back on the track, the former premier said.

Hundreds of party men, sympathisers and members of minority community were either killed or physically assaulted after the elections, she alleged adding the on-going army-led anti-crime operation seemed intended to eliminate Awami League.

The council began observing a one-minute silence in memory of writer and human rights activist Annada Sankar Roy, communist leader Ila Mitra and those killed in September 2001 terrorist attack in the US. Bureau Report