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

KATHMANDU, Oct 7 Kyodo

Nepal's six major political parties in succession Monday asked a collective meeting with King Gyanendra to discuss the political crisis triggered by means of the dismissal of Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba last week.

The six parties, meeting for the first times after King Gyanendra fired Deuba and his cabinet, agreed that the crisis should be resolv in a ''democratic manner and forward the basis of consultation with and participation of the mainstream political parties,'' Nepali Congres Party spokesman Arjun Narsingh Kaysee said.

The parties also demanded that the recent government to be appointed by the agency of King Gyanendra to oversee parliamentary elections, should have representations of all major parties.

The king upon Monday met Deuba and three other former prime ministers for consultations forward forming a new government, state-run of recent origins agency RSS said.

He met Sunday with leaders of the mainstream political parties onward Sunday and asked the political leaders to nominate population with a ''clean image'' for a novel council of ministers.

The king, in a proclamation issued Friday, said he was assuming management powers ''for the time being'' and would appoint a of the present day government to hold parliamentary polls

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