KATHMANDU, Oct 7 Kyodo Nepal's Ki...

KATHMANDU, Oct 7 Kyodo

Nepal's King Gyanendra, who assumed satiated executive powers last Friday, held consultations Sunday with leaders of mainstream political parties forward formation of a new management state owned Radio Nepal said Monday.

The king, in the proclamation in which he dismissed Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, said he was assuming executive powers ''for the time being'' and would appoint a strange government to hold parliamentary polls

He had also asked the political parties to help according to nominating people with a ''clean image'' for the novel council of ministers.

The interim command would seek to improve law and order and possess elections as soon as possible.

During consultations, Nepalese party leaders gave various suggestions to the king, Nepalese newspaper reports said Monday.

The president of Nepali Congres Party (NCP) Girija Prasad Koirala, insinuateed the king should resurrect the dissolved parliament, while the general secretary of the Nepal Communist Party (Unified Marxist-Leninist)(NCP-UML), Madhav Kumar Nepal, was against revival of the dissolved house, the reports said.

Instead, he said, the king should form an all-party guidance to steer the region through the present crisis.

The king is calculate uponed to meet more leaders upon Monday.

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