Kathmandu: Four major political parties in Nepal have decided to boycott the Lokendra Bahadur Chand government, charging it with having failed to meet their demand of restoring the Democratic rights of the people.

The four parties - Nepali Congress, Nepali Communist Party, Nepal Workers' and Peasants' Party and Janamorcha Nepal - which met earlier this week to work out joint strategies to restore multiparty Democracy in the country, decided to boycott the government's programmes.

"We have decided to launch a joint movement to restore multiparty Democracy and fully implement the Constitution, which was a big achievement of the 1990 Democratic movement," Baldev Majgaiya, former MP belonging to Nepali Congress, said.

All four parties have taken a common stance that a joint movement was essential to restore Democracy and Human Rights in Nepal, Majgaiya said. But the date and the modalities of the movement are yet to be decided, he added.

Among the programmes to be boycotted is the anti-graft campaign of the government, for which it constituted a mobile team a month ago, he said.

The four parties, however, regard the Maoist-government ceasefire as a positive step and have urged all sides concerned to move ahead with the common agenda of safeguarding multiparty Democracy and bringing about positive reforms, said a joint statement issued on conclusion of the meeting.

They urged the King and the Maoists to make clear their stand on four critical issues - people as the repository of sovereignty, Constitutional monarchy, multiparty Democracy and Democratic rights of the people.

PTI