Gyanendra had offered power sharing deal to Prachanda: Koirala

Kathmandu, Oct 20 (PTI) Nepal's former King Gyanendra,
who was forcibly ousted from the office, had met rebel
Maoists' chief Prachanda and offered him power sharing deal.

Former prime minister Girija Prasad Koirala Monday
revealed that Prachanda told him during their meeting in Delhi
in November 2005, before signing the 12-point agreement that
he had met Gyanendra, who offered him power sharing deal.

"Prachanda told me that he had rejected the offer when
the King asked him to share power with him and suppress the
democratic forces," Koirala, also Nepali Congress president,
said.

Speaking at a programme organized by Nepali Congress
Foreign Relations department in Kathmandu, Koirala slammed the
C.P.N.-Maoist led government for violating the constitutional
provisions. The government should be run as per the provisions
of the constitution and not the other way round, he said.

"The government should not modify the constitution in
the way it liked," Koirala said.

Nepali Army is the army of a democratic country so, it
should not be politicised, he said, adding the Nepali Army has
earned fame in international arena so it should not used for
party interest.

Meanwhile, Nepali Congress senior leader Sher Bahadur
Deuba has rejected the offer made by Prime Minister Pushpa
Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' to join the Maoist-led government.

"Until the Maoists' fulfill the seven point demands
put forth by the Nepali Congress, Nepali Congress cannot think
of joining the government," he said.

The seven points include returning seized property by
Maoist, dissolving the military and semi-military structures
of the Maoist, integration of Maoist combatants and
destruction of weapons stored by them, and ending violence,
terror, abduction and threat unleashed by the Maoist cadres.
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