Himalayan News Service

Pokhara, May 9:

Nepali Congress president, Girija Prasad Koirala, has said that the upcoming agitation scheduled to be centred in the capital will be decisive. He said this while addressing party workers in Pokhara today.

The agitation would be final in achieving total democracy, he said. “All the seven parties have agreed to launch an agitation against regression,” said Koirala. He said it was the King who committed a crime by hijacking the fundamental freedom of Nepalis. As the King has seized constitutional rights of the people, he should be held responsible for it, he said.

Koirala appealed to the King to hand over the bridle of government and democratic rights to the people’s representatives by reinstating the House

of Representatives. “I can frankly say that the King’s policy is wrong,” he added.Stating that elections won’t be possible under present conditions, he said that media censorship and detention of political workers should be stopped. He expressed concern over travel restrictions imposed on NC’s central member Ram Krishna Tamrakar. He was not allowed to fly to Pokhara from Kathmandu today.

Koirala was not permitted to meet NC leader Ramchandra Poudel. Koirala wanted to

know about his health as Poudel is being treated at the West Regional Hospital in Pokhara.

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LONDON: India should not resume military aid to Nepal, as it would only strengthen the dictatorship of King Gyanendra, Girija Prasad Koirala has said. “In today’s situation when seven main political parties of Nepal have joined hands to launch a movement for restoration of democracy and protection of people’s rights, at a time when we are coming out with an agenda for civil rights, we do not find it proper that arms supply should be resumed at this juncture,” Koirala said in a BBC radio interview. — HNS