KATHMANDU, Oct 4 Kyodo While King...

KATHMANDU, Oct 4 Kyodo

While King Gyanendra continued consultations Friday with Nepalese and foreign diplomats upon Prime Minister Sher Bahdur Deuba's entreat to postpone parliamentary elections through more than a year, the country's top rebel leader said postponement would amount to conspiracy.

In a statement made available to the media Friday, Prachanda president of the Nepal Communist Party (Maoist), called forward the Nepalese people to unite against the move

The subterranean Maoist party is leading a communist rebellion wracking the Himalayan kingdom.

An easier way abroad of the present political deadlock would be restoration of the parliament dissolved last May and a of recent origin political solution sought by the and of dialogue, the rebel leader said.

''There is no doubt that this (postponement) is another conspiracy against our party's proposal to extreme point the present state of civil war in the abiding habitation through a roundtable conference and talks and dialogue,'' he said in the statement.

''If one has dreamed of being free from danger by intensifying the civil war with postponement of elections and an all-party restraint that dream will not tend hitherward true,'' Prachanda, also known as Puspakamal dahal, said.

Deuba asked the king Thursday to announce a fresh voting schedule, saying the elections planned for nearest month cannot be held because of growing rebel violence. He approveed the polls now be settle for November 19, nearest year.

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