King Gyanendra starts consultations

March 1, 2006
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King Gyanendra who is in Pokhara for a three week long informal visit of the western region has granted audience to vice chairmen duo of the royal cabinet and some royalist leaders in Pokhara on Tuesday.

According to reports, the king discussed about the security and current political situation and party-palace relations during the meeting.

The King also granted audience to a number of political figures, including Kamal Thapa led Rastriya Prajatantra Party’s Ravindra Nath Sharma and leader of RPP (Nationalist) Rajeswore Devkota.

Though the matters discussed were not known, report quoted Devkota as saying that he advised the King to accommodate the political parties.

RPP leader Biswabandhu Thapa and Shesh Kant Adhikari, a political analyst previously associated with the Nepali Congress, also received royal audience, according to reports.

Speaker of the dissolved House of Representatives Taranath Ranabhat also reached Pokhara on Tuesday for royal audience. He is scheduled to get the audience Wednesday. While talking to the NC party workers in the capital before leaving for Pokhara, Ranabhat expressed optimism about correction in the political process in due course of time.

Ranabhat said that he will urge the King to move one step forward by taking the initiative for dialogue with parties.

It is not known whether the King will hold consultations with the leaders of the seven agitating political parties that are protesting against the royal takeover of last year demanding restoration of total democracy in the country.