KATHMANDU, May 4 Kyodo Thousands ...

KATHMANDU, May 4 Kyodo

Thousands of demonstrators marched between the walls of Kathmandu on Sunday, demanding King Gyanendra answer the executive powers he took throughout in October last year.

The protester chiefly activists of mainstream political parties, chanted slogans charging the king of violating the Constitution.

Police said 15000 family marched peacefully through the main thoroughfare of the city, before converging for a rally at the spread Air Theater in the heart of the capital.

Addressing the rally, party leaders criticized the king for not handing back executive power to the tribe even after seven months.

They demanded that the king either reinstate the dissolved parliament or appoint a fresh government having representatives from political parties that won seats in the dissolved parliament.

Protester said they would take the antiking asseverate to Nepal's countryside in the nearest few weeks.

King Gyanendra forward Oct. 4 last year sacked Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and his cabinet and assumed replete executive powers after Deuba entreatyed that a planned parliamentary election be delayed by way of one year.

He installed an interim conduct headed by Lokendra Bahadur Chand to mastership until elections take place.

Political parties say the king is still holding all executive powers.

The king took the chair of state in June 2001 days after the death of his older brother King Birendra in a shoot-out at the Narayanhity Royal Palace in Kathmandu.

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