Kathmandu, July 20: One of Nepal's main opposition parties today said Prime Minister Surya Bahadur Thapa government must quit and urged King Gyanendra to form an all party government to end the political stalemate in the country. The Thapa government must exit as soon as possible as the political parties are neither going to participate in it nor will they extend support to it, general secretary of Nepal Communist Party-Marxist Leninist Madhav Kumar Nepal told reporters, adding "sooner the better."
The five major parties will intensify their joint agitation after the monsoon, he added.

"The five parties are the only legitimate force in the country at a time when the House of Representatives is absent, therefore, the King must form an all party government to end the stalemate," Nepal said. He also ruled out the possibility of holding polls at the moment adding the factors which forced the previous government to postpone the general election still exist.
Nepal asked the Maoists to support the joint agitation saying, "if they want this problem to be solved militarily, then we have nothing to say." Urging the Maoists to stop terrorising people, he said "people still do not feel safe while coming out from their houses in the rural areas because of the Maoists' continued violence and terror".

Meanwhile, the major opposition parties held a mock "session" of Parliament and rejected foreign aid-dependent budget, which was passed by a royal ordinance. Bureau Report