Baglung, April 22:

District-level leaders of the seven agitating parties have warned their respective central leaderships not to compromise with King Gyanendra. The district-based leaders are of the view that the royal proclamation is only a conspiracy to suppress the ongoing movement. They have also termed the royal address a deception.

Political parties including Left Front, NC, NC-D and CPN-UML and district-based organisations including the Federation of Nepalese Journalists, Nepal Teachers’ Union, human right organisations and other professional organisations in separate statements today protested the royal proclamation.

The statements claimed that the royal proclamation was an attempt by the King to clear his image in the eyes of the international community.

Addressing a meeting after a protest rally staged by dairy and vegetable farmers here today, CPN-UML central alternative member Ramji Sharma said election to the constituent assembly should be made the starting point for a solution to the crisis gripping the nation.

Speaking on the occasion, Baglung NC-D president Mani Bhadra Sharma Kandel said the King had time and again deceived the Nepalese people and added that the ongoing movement would continue until total democracy is restored in the nation.

Others including NC district secretary Prakash Sharma, Bharat Poudel of Janamorcha Nepal and Tara KC of CPN-ML addressed the meeting.

In Tanahun, district-level leaders and activists of the seven parties termed the King’s address to the nation as a conspiracy and added it was unacceptable to them as it does not address the demands of seven-parties.

NC general committee member Krishna Prasad Gautam said the agitation must be intensified now that the King has failed to acknowledge the people’s demand for democracy.

CPN-UML district secretary Pratap Lal Shrestha said the parties would not accept the king’s proposal. District secretary of NC-D Samundra Godar said there was no significance of a proclamation that failed to address the sentiment of peoples’ movement and Maoists. Jana Morcha Nepal district vice-chairman Pushpa Raj Gaire said the agitation would continue

since the royal address didn’t address any of the demands of the parties. Tara Raj Rana of NC, student leaders Laxmi Bhakta Khanal, Bishnu Bhakta Sigdel and Sri Ram Achuk also said the movement would continue.

In Rautahat, the seven parties as well as different groups of professionals complained that the royal address not only played with the sentiments of the people but was also a conspiracy to suppress the ongoing agitation.

Rautahat coordinator of the regional joint front committee, Prabhu Shah said the King’s address was an attempt to deceive the people and stifle the agitation. He urged all Nepalis to continue the ongoing movement until restoration of total democracy in the nation.