“I was one of the participants in the entire process back then,” said former Prime Minister Nepal, “We had asked then King Gyanendra to hand over all the rights to the people and accordingly the dissolved parliament was reinstated.”

“After I got released from the house arrest, an Indian leader Karan Singh had brought up the proposal of ‘Baby King’ during a meeting at our party office in Balkhu,” said Nepal. “But I rejected the proposal outright. It was already late by then.”

Former King Gyanendra issued a goodwill message on the eve of 64th Democracy Day (February 18) and demanded political parties implement the agreements forged before he abdicated the throne after the People’s Movement II.

In his message, Shah had mentioned that there had been some consensus, agreement and legislative activities on the basis of norms and values of democracy and that the parties should follow and implement such pacts.

Then Nepali Congress President Girija Prasad Koirala, UML General Secretary Madhav Kumar Nepal had held talks on behalf of the then Seven-Party Alliance with Shah, the then executive head of state.