Gyanendra ready for peaceful exit
Nepal's ousted king Gyanendra is ready for a "peaceful exit" but wants the government to make arrangement for accommodation and security of his family, his aides said after the government gave him a 15-day notice to leave his palace.
By PTI |
KATHMANDU: Nepal's ousted king Gyanendra is ready for a "peaceful exit" but wants the government to make arrangement for accommodation and security of his family, his aides said after the government gave him a 15-day notice to leave his palace.
"The king has expressed his wish to respect the CA's historic decision and make a peaceful exit," Pradeep Aryal, secretary looking after the Narayanhiti palace where Gyanedra is living was quoted as saying by the state-run The Rising Nepal.
According to officials at the now dissolved palace secretariat, the 60-year-old former monarch is looking for an appropriate place to shift with the former queen mother Ratna and his great grandmother Sarala, who is 94. She is the "mistress" of late king Tribhuvan, the daily said.
Gyanendra's intentions were communicated to the government after it yesterday sent a formal letter asking him to vacate the palace within 15 days after the Constitutent Assembly abolished the 240-year-old Hindu monarchy on May 28.
The government has asked Gyanendra "to make an exit only after coordinating with it so that appropriate measures could be taken for his security" and formed a committee that will recommend the level of security that should be arranged for the former king and his family.
At a meeting of the country's main parties, where the Maoists leaders were not present, Home Minister Krishna Prasad Sitaula dismissed rumours that Gyanendra had left the palace.
The minister apprised the leaders about Gyanendra's proposal that it would be easier if the government made arrangements for accommodation and security for former Queen mother Ratna and his great grandmother, the daily said.
"The king has expressed his wish to respect the CA's historic decision and make a peaceful exit," Pradeep Aryal, secretary looking after the Narayanhiti palace where Gyanedra is living was quoted as saying by the state-run The Rising Nepal.
According to officials at the now dissolved palace secretariat, the 60-year-old former monarch is looking for an appropriate place to shift with the former queen mother Ratna and his great grandmother Sarala, who is 94. She is the "mistress" of late king Tribhuvan, the daily said.
Gyanendra's intentions were communicated to the government after it yesterday sent a formal letter asking him to vacate the palace within 15 days after the Constitutent Assembly abolished the 240-year-old Hindu monarchy on May 28.
The government has asked Gyanendra "to make an exit only after coordinating with it so that appropriate measures could be taken for his security" and formed a committee that will recommend the level of security that should be arranged for the former king and his family.
At a meeting of the country's main parties, where the Maoists leaders were not present, Home Minister Krishna Prasad Sitaula dismissed rumours that Gyanendra had left the palace.
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The minister apprised the leaders about Gyanendra's proposal that it would be easier if the government made arrangements for accommodation and security for former Queen mother Ratna and his great grandmother, the daily said.
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