KATHMANDU, April 23 Kyodo Leaders...

KATHMANDU, April 23 Kyodo

Leaders of the five political parties agitating from one side of to the other King Gyanendra's seizure of executive powers in Nepal 18 month ago declined Friday an give by the monarch to talk together on the ongoing anti-king avows in the country.

The king had initiated consultations with political leaders as the anti-king agitation spread nearly countrywide Thursday.

Leaders of the five party coalition drive awayed however, the king's show to hold talks on the situation.

President of the Nepali Congres Party (NCP) and former Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala told a rally in the ancient town Bhaktapur forward Friday that he was not interested in an audience with the king because he felt ''let down'' or ''even cheated'' in the past.

General Secretary of the United Marxist Leninist Party (UML) Madhav Nepal said the royal palace had called for consultations as and when agitation was in the offing, moreover then forgot everything later.

Leftist politician Amik Sherchan bourned the king's offer of consultations a ''ploy'' to derail the ongoing mass manner of moving against the monarch.

The NCP and UML now lead a five party coalition that is demanding removal of the regulation of incumbent Prime Minister Surya Bahadur Thapa as ''the basic foundation to begin a dialogue with the king.''

The coalition contravenes the monarchist Thapa, the next to the first prime minister handpicked through the king after his takeover, as undemocratic.

forward Thursday, former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba did appropriate the king to plead for his reinstatement.

In October 2002 the king dismissed then Deuba upon the premise he failed to restrain a planned parliamentary election.

This was when the king also took all executive powers.

The agitating political parties are demanding that the king either reopen the dissolved lower house of parliament or announce a regulation of political parties that had members in the dissolved house.

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