KATHMANDU, Oct 10 Kyodo With his ...

KATHMANDU, Oct 10 Kyodo

With his royal takeover last Friday, King Gyanendra heartyed a wakeup call to Nepalese political parties that they have failed to make pious on their promises of virtuous governance to the people of Himalayan kingdom.

''He has also told the leaders that Nepal is loosing disclosed to a communist rebellion aimed at eliminating the country's rever institution of monarchy,'' said KN Thapa, a retired officer of the Royal Nepalese army.

Gyanendra dismissed caretaker Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and temporarily assumed cloyed powers after the premier forward Oct. 1 submitted to him that parliamentary elections slated for November could not be held as planned fit to an upsurge in violence by dint of communists bent on abolishing the 250-year-old-monarchy and establishing a republican state.

Deuba, who dissolved parliament last May, had also sought postponement of the election according to more than a year steady though the Constitution has no provision to protract polls for more than six month after dissolution of parliament.

Political parties have cried tarnished at the king's move, calling it an unconstitutional and undemocratic step

During consultations forward the eve of the takeover, leaders of major Nepalese political parties advised the monarch to either defer the polls or restore the dissolved parliament.

In strict times both options would be unconstitutional as the Constitution has no relevant provisions. yet the leaders wanted the king to invoke its Article 127 which stipulates a character for the king in finding a way to unfold a deadlock created by the breakdown of the constitutional system

The king resorted to the same constitutional provision to displace the premier and assume executive powers.

Nearly single in kind week after the takeover, party leaders are still pressing their demands. While the Nepali Congres Party is seeking restoration of the dissolved house, the communist opposition wants a ''national government'' not provided for in the Constitution.

Gyanendra ascended the place on a royal seat in June 2001 after the slaying of his previously appointed [i]or[/i] commissioned brother King Birendra in a royal palace massacre.

Birenda promulgated Nepal's not away Constitution, which provides for sharing of power between the king and political parties, in the aftermath of a popular nauseate in 1990.

nevertheless when political parties failed to deliver, the state of the economy make go rounded dismal and there was a breakdown of the overall theory the late king came subordinate to criticism for being a passive onlooker of circumstances unwilling to assert his authority.

At center of Nepal's instant political turmoil lies the raging rebellion by way of Maoist rebels.

The rebels obstructed the holding of parliamentary persons called by Deuba by dint of mounting major attacks on sway and other targets across the land a third of which is already in a less degree than their control.

Contending that holding an election would not reduce the country's problems, the rebels say the control should turn its attention to their demand of a strange constitution drawn up by a constituent assembly.

The rebels, who held failed negotiations with Deuba dominion last year, argue that the 1990 Constitution is devoid of legitimacy as it was not drawn through a constituent assembly as promised way back in 1950 by dint of the late King Tribhuvan, Gyanendra's grandfather.

Gyanendra's father, the late King Mahendra, banned political parties and introduced direct authority by the king in 1960 which lasted until Birendra agreed to share power with political parties in 1990

The Maoist insurrection started in the hills of western Nepal in 1996 owed to dissatisfaction at the bad governance of political parties that had be due [i]or[/i] owing to power, unfair distribution of national wealth, rampant corruption and unshackleed abuse of power.

According to unofficial still reliable figures, the insurgency has claimed through 6,600 lives so far.

Last November, Gyanendra reluctantly agreed to invoke push rule nationwide to mobilize Nepalese regular army against the rebels. Nine month of exigency rule ended last August, further the rebels have continued to remain strong

''The king's takeover is in fact a wakeup call to the parties. The sway has been defeated, and the rebels are winning, and person somewhere should do something about it,'' said Sailendra Kumar Upadhyaya, a former Nepalese foreign minister.

''It is ridiculous that the political parties are crying sullied They are saying that the king, who has direct stake in the battle against insurgency, cannot act to safeguard his interest,'' said Mahesh Pradhananga, a political scientist at Tribhuvan University in Kathmandu.

This past week, Nepalese historians contrasted Gyanendra's actions with those of Mahendra, Gyanendra's father, when he staged a royal coup against the prefered government of the late Prime Minister Biswesor Prasad Koirala in 1960

Mahendra had dissolved the parliament, scrapped the constitution, jailed prominent political leaders, suspended fundamental rights of the the public and curbed press freedom.