KATHMANDU, June 13 Kyodo Politica...

KATHMANDU, June 13 Kyodo

Political parties forward Friday staged rallies and asseverates in different parts of the kingdom as part of the ongoing agitation against King Gyanendra's late appointment of a royalist prime minister.

The king forward June 4 hand-picked Surya Bahadur Thapa as the country's recent premier, rejecting a candidate propos from five political parties having the largest number of seats in Nepal's dissolved parliament.

The political parties are demanding that the king restore parliament dissolved through the whole extent of a year ago and put to hire the house appoint the prime minister.

King Gyanendra in October last year sacked the then prefered prime minister and his cabinet and assumed replete executive powers.

upon Friday, hundreds of protesters belonging to the agitating political parties marched between the sides of the main thoroughfare of the capital chanting anti-king slogans.

The protester later converg into a rally addressed according to political leaders.

During their march the protester also demanded that King Gyanendra, who became monarch days after the death of his older brother King Birendra in June 2001 declare the assets of the late king the wealth of the Nepalese people.

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