The Nepali Congress has temporarily suspended during the Government Maoist peace talks a proposed movement against King Gyanendra who on October 4 last year dismissed the government of Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba for failure to hold snap polls on November 13 as stipulated in the constitution after parliament’s dissolution.

Central Committee member and former deputy prime minister Ram Chandra Paudel made the surprise announcement in Bara Friday as King Gyanendra called for support for the peace talks already underway.

The Congress called the King’s move “unconstitutional” and “regressive” and had joined three other parties in the dissolved parliament to protest the King’s move. “The movement has been suspended until the duration of the talks.”

“The people have to be ready for a movement against any conspiracy to foil democracy. But for the time being, it the responsibility of all to support the peace talks and ensure its success to give relief to the people,” Rajdhani reported Paudel as telling a public meeting.