Kathmandu, Oct 10 (pti) with the king's deadline for naming a new Prime Minster well past, a major political party today urged the monarch to form an interim government and return all the executive powers to the new administration.

"The party has urged the king to form an interim government under Article 128(2) of the constitution and return all the executive power to the new ministry as per the constitution," the Nepali Congress said today after a meeting of its central working committee. Calling upon the king to "rectify" his unconstitutional move of sacking an elected government, the congress reiterated its demand for reviving the dissolved house as the "only way constitutional way" to resolve the present political crisis.

The meeting chaired by party president Girija Prasad Koirala also appealed to king Gyanendra to convene a meeting of major political parties to discuss the present crises and take a decision "acceptable to all political parties represented in the dissolved house," CWC member Ramchandra Poudyal said after the meeting. It is for the first time in the kingdom's 12 year parliamentary history that there is no Prime Minister for a week. The king had assumed all executive powers when he dismissed Sher Bahadur Deuba's government last friday with a promise to form a new government in five days.

However, the deadline given by the king to political parties to recommend names of those interested in a berth in the new government has also expired with no name suggested by them so far. Bureau Report