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Nepalese ex-PM vows battle against king KATHMANDU, Saturday (AFP) Freed from more than a month of detention, Nepal's sacked prime minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has vowed to take his supporters on to the streets in a bid to force King Gyanendra to reverse his power grab, reports said Saturday. "It is a fact that the king has ended democracy so there is no alternative to a massive joint movement," Deuba was quoted as saying by the local media in his first comments after being released Friday from house arrest. Deuba had been in detention since Gyanendra dismissed his multi-party government on February 1 and seized control of Nepal, imposing emergency rule and vowing to tackle an increasingly bloody Maoist revolt that has claimed 11,000 lives since 1996. "My party will join hands with other parties for a strong protest," Deuba told reporters. "All-party government is the only way to tackle the present problems." Deuba, president of the Nepali Congress (Democratic), also demanded the release of other detained political leaders, including former prime minister Girija Prasad Koirala and Nepal Communist Party-United Marxist and Leninist (NCP-UML) general secretary Madhav Kumar Nepal. Deuba, who was freed along with 17 other detainees amid mounting international pressure on the king to restore civil liberties, was Saturday meeting with senior party colleagues to discuss latest developments, party sources said. |
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