Ten youth organisations affiliated to various political parties including Unified CPN (Maoist), CPN (UML) and Nepali Congress (NC) have demanded for action against former King Gyanendra Shah for his statement about monarchy at a television interview, Tuesday.
The youth organisations have asked the government to detain the former King and curtail all facilities provided to him by the state for giving expression against democratic republic.
Shah, in an interview in Janakpur with Avenues TV last week, had said it would be hypothetical to say monarchy in Nepal has been finished.
A joint meeting of the youth organisations in Kathmandu on Tuesday concluded former King Shah's expression that the monarchy had not ended completely and former Prime Minister Krishna Prasad Bhattarai's call for revival of the 1990 constitution were aimed at derailing the constitution drafting and peace process.
Few days after the former King's interview former Prime Minister Bhattarai had issued a press statement calling for the revival of the 1990 constitution and the reinstatement of Hindu state saying a new constitution within May 28 is unlikely.
The meeting with representatives from Maoists' Young Communists League (YCL), Nepali Congress' Tarun Dal, CPN (UML)'s Youth Federation Nepal, and Madhesi Janadhikar Forum's Madhesi Youth Forum, among others, has also decided to organise a joint rally from Ratnapark to Naya Baneshwar on April 4 and submit a memorandum to Constituent Assembly chairman Subash Chandra Nemwang for a timely constitution.
The youth organisations have also accused the Ministry of Youth and Sports of bringing out youth policy against their suggestions and irregularities in the budget earmarked for youth welfare programmes. They have decided to submit a memorandum to the ministry on this
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