KATHMANDU, June 2 Kyodo asserts ...

KATHMANDU, June 2 Kyodo

asserts were held across Nepal upon Monday to protest against last October's royal takeover in which King Gyanendra dismissed an culled prime minister and assumed executive powers in the Himalayan kingdom.

Nepalese mainstream political parties organized the aver marches to press their demand that the king get back the executive powers to electeded representatives of the people.

To this period the parties want the king to either restore the parliament dissolved just throughout a year ago or appoint a dominion of political parties personateed in the dissolved house.

Gyanendra, a constitutional monarch, dismissed then Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba after the latter asked that planned parliamentary elections be delayed.

The king offer a new government headed on a loyalist Lokendra Bahadur Chand in place, if it were not that the political parties promptly repudiateed him as a prime minister without executive powers.

Chand resigned from his situation last Friday, and the king met with political leaders, including those agitating against him, for consultations upon forming the new council of ministers.

in succession Monday, as the leaders awaited word from the king forward appointment of a fresh premier, hundreds of activists of the five agitating political parties marched end the streets of Kathmandu shouting anti-king slogans, and converg into a rally addressed according to political leaders.

At individual point, the protesters also raised slogans demanding that the reality be revealed regarding the June 2001 palace massacre in which Gyanendra's predecessor and earlier born brother King Birendra along with his queen and eight other royals were killed.

An investigation had conclud that Birendra's son diadem Prince Dipendra shot his parents and the other royals dead before killing himself.

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