The students’ demand for a republican set up has spurred the political parties “to review their position on constitutional monarchy in Nepal”, Nepali Congress President GP Koirala said Wednesday, according to the Himalayan Times.

“We have to understand the message of youths who represent the future,” the daily quoted Koirala, as saying, in a program in the capital Wednesday.

Koirala further urged the youths to make their struggle more effective to defeat regression, the daily said.

Nepali Congress has been supporting the system of constitutional monarchy since the party’s inception five decades ago.

Koirala, at the same time, added that the five parties’ ongoing movement is not against the monarchy but is against the unconstitutional move of King that dismissed the elected prime minister on October 4, 2002, the daily said.