Calls for King of Nepal to give up throne

Nepal’s prime minister suggested King Gyanendra, who has been stripped of all his authorities and remains a powerless monarch, should give up his throne, it was reported today.

“If the king abdicates the throne now it would create a new environment,” the Kantipur newspaper quoted Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala as saying at his hometown of Biratnagar in east Nepal.