Kathmandu: Nepalese caretaker Prime Minister Lokendra Bahadur Chand has said that he is holding talks with various political parties for their possible inclusion in the ministry.

"I will take decision regarding the announcement of the election date and expansion of the ministry after holding discussions with all the major political parties," Chand told reporters on November 9.

Chand has not been able to give his nine-member Cabinet complete form even four weeks after its formation by the King on October 11.

The major political parties including Nepali Congress and Nepal Communist Party CPN (UML) have set pre-conditions to rectify the "wrong" done by the King before joining the ministry.

They have said that unless the government transfered the executive power assumed by the King, they would not join it.

Meanwhile, former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has demanded the restoration of his government terming the October 4 decision of the King as "un-Democratic and un- Constitutional".

He lambasted Nepali Congress and CPN-UML for not demanding revival of the elected government out of fear of the King.

"There is no provision in the Constitution which empowers the King to nominate or remove the Prime Minister," he said.

On November 9, over 2,000 people took out a protest march denouncing King Gyanendra's sacking of Deuba as Prime Minister and demanded an early Parliamentary elections.

PTI