Kathmandu, Aug 04: Nepal's main five political parties today announced the seventh phase of their movement to protest against King Gyanendra's sacking of the elected Prime Minister. "The five political parties' seventh phase movement against the King's regressive steps will be centralized in Kathmandu, which will be final and successful," Nepali Congress (NC) president Girija Prasad Koirala told a press conference here.

"Under this two-week movement, I will go on a nation-wide tour from Monday to mobilize the NC's eight different professional organizations, including the Nepal Student's Union (NSU) and party cadres, to obtain popular public support," Koirala said, adding a relay hunger strike across the country which started in April will end on August 17.

The NC is one of the five parties which have been campaigning against the king since mid-April. They are angry that Gyanendra on October 4 sacked Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, replaced him with royalist Lokendra Bahadur Chand and postponed elections.

In May Chand resigned, saying he wanted to put an end to the political turmoil, but the King's new appointment as Prime Minister, Surya Bahadur Thapa, infuriated the parties even more and they have refused to cooperate with his government.