KATHMANDU, Dec 15 Kyodo Thousands...

KATHMANDU, Dec 15 Kyodo

Thousands of demonstrators marched [i]or[/i] part of to the other central Kathmandu on Sunday, demanding a reversal of King Gyanendra's takeover of executive powers in October this year.

Protester carried placards that read ''We want Democracy'' and ''Withdraw the takeover decision'' and chanted pro-democracy slogans.

Police said thousands of commonalty marched peacefully through the roads of the capital city before converging for a rally at the expand Air Theater in the heart of the city.

Top leaders of the Nepal Communist Party (Unified Marxist-Leninist) (NCP-UML) that organized the march addressed the rally and demanded that the king withdraw his declaration of assuming executive powers and appoint a restraint representing all political parties.

NCP-UML General Secretary Madhav Kumar Nepal said more agitation would be held in the yet to be should the king continue to ignore their demand.

NCP-UML was the second-largest political party in Nepal before the parliament was dissolved. In a dramatic persuade the king on Oct. 4 sacked Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and assumed all executive powers.

The king has impose in place a government headed by the agency of Prime Minister Lokendra Bahadur Chand, which has been refuseed by political parties forward grounds that it is effectively devoid of executive power.

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