Emergency in Nepal on for 3 more months

Nepal's King Gyanendra reimposed emergency for another three months on the request of the Prime Minister, the Royal Palace announced on Mond...

Nepal’s King Gyanendra reimposed emergency for another three months on the request of the Prime Minister, the Royal Palace announced on Monday.

The statement said the state of emergency, which had lapsed on Saturday after two previous three-month decrees, had been reimposed at the request of PM Sher Bahadur Deuba and his Council of ministers.

Deuba was expelled yesterday by his party, the Nepali Congress, for trying to push a six-month extension of the emergency through Parliament, then calling November 13 elections when his faction-riddled party did not support him.

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He can remain PM until the elections, but cannot run as a member of the party that has won most of Nepal’s elections since democracy was restored in 1990 under a constitutional monarchy.

Deuba, however, vowed he would fight on within the party and call its general convention meeting to discuss his expulsion. ‘‘I will fight this,’’ he said.

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