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Deposed King Gyanendra to vacate palace Wednesday
Shirish B. Pradhan
Kathmandu, Jun 11 (PTI) - Nepal's deposed King Gyanendra will vacate his palace Wednesday, a day before the expiry of the 15-day deadline set by the newly-elected Constituent Assembly which abolished the 240-year-old monarchy.
Citing the Narayanhiti Palace officials, Home Minister
Krishna Sitaula told reporters here Tuesday that the former
King will hand over the Crown and other valuables before
leaving the palace.
Nepal's Maoists-dominated Constituent Assembly had passed
on May 28 a resolution to declare the country a republic by
abolishing the centuries-old monarchy. It also set a 15-day
deadline for Gyanendra to leave the palace, which expires on
Thursday.
The former monarch will leave for the Nagarjun forest
bungalow located seven kms west of the capital after vacating
the palace, the minister said.
The people's movement of 2006 that restored democracy and
the resolution that ended monarchy peacefully would be
recorded as important incidents in the world history, Sitaula
said.
It was a rare occasion in the world's history that
monarchy was abolished through voting without any bloodshed,
he said.
Sitaula said the government will not provide any
allowance or cultural power to the former monarch and
clarified that the Nagarjun forest bungalow has been provided
to Gyanendra for temporary purpose only.
"After the deposed King asked the government for
temporary accommodation for his early exit from the palace, we
have decided to provide him the palace property which has
already been nationalised," he said.
The government, however, provided two buildings within
the Narayanhity palace for Gyanendra's stepmother Ratna and
his grandmother Sarala for the time-being, the minister said,
adding the palace will be converted into a museum after
Gyanendra leaves it Wednesday. PTI
Kathmandu, Jun 11 (PTI) - Nepal's deposed King Gyanendra will vacate his palace Wednesday, a day before the expiry of the 15-day deadline set by the newly-elected Constituent Assembly which abolished the 240-year-old monarchy.
Citing the Narayanhiti Palace officials, Home Minister
Krishna Sitaula told reporters here Tuesday that the former
King will hand over the Crown and other valuables before
leaving the palace.
Nepal's Maoists-dominated Constituent Assembly had passed
on May 28 a resolution to declare the country a republic by
abolishing the centuries-old monarchy. It also set a 15-day
deadline for Gyanendra to leave the palace, which expires on
Thursday.
The former monarch will leave for the Nagarjun forest
bungalow located seven kms west of the capital after vacating
the palace, the minister said.
The people's movement of 2006 that restored democracy and
the resolution that ended monarchy peacefully would be
recorded as important incidents in the world history, Sitaula
said.
It was a rare occasion in the world's history that
monarchy was abolished through voting without any bloodshed,
he said.
Sitaula said the government will not provide any
allowance or cultural power to the former monarch and
clarified that the Nagarjun forest bungalow has been provided
to Gyanendra for temporary purpose only.
"After the deposed King asked the government for
temporary accommodation for his early exit from the palace, we
have decided to provide him the palace property which has
already been nationalised," he said.
The government, however, provided two buildings within
the Narayanhity palace for Gyanendra's stepmother Ratna and
his grandmother Sarala for the time-being, the minister said,
adding the palace will be converted into a museum after
Gyanendra leaves it Wednesday. PTI
