Click to play videoNew Delhi: The opposition's anti-King general strike in Nepal enters its 11th day on Sunday.
Violent protests against King Gyanendra has rocked the Himalayan kingdom. Doctors of government and private hospitals also threatened to come to the streets if the government continued to suppress the peaceful agitation of the opposition.
Ramnath a protestor says, "All the seven parties have unanimously decided that unless democracy is restored and King abdicates and agrees to restore the political leaders their rights, our protests will continue. We will not go for a dialogue."
Markets were partially opened and very few vehicles plied on the roads of Kathmandu with schools and colleges remaining closed as the seven-party alliance's indefinite strike, which began on April six, to demand total democracy continued.
King Gyanendra had promised to hold elections at the start of the Nepali New Year. The country became a democracy in 1990 after a sustained campaign against monarchy. But in February 2005 King Gyanendra sacked the government, saying it had failed to counter the Maoist menace.
"The King should listen, the King is also Nepali, he is also a Nepali citizen. If he has no feeling for Nepal and its people then even we have no sympathy for the royal regime and the King of Nepal," said Ramesh Shreshtha another protestor.
On Saturday, Nepal police came down heavily on one of the largest anti-King protests in Kathmandu. About 8,000 demonstrators participated in the march.
The police lathi charged the protestors when they marched into the city from a western suburb, chanting slogans against King Gyanendra.
Earlier, the demonstrators sat cross-legged on the road for hours in the Kalanki suburb. Several journalists were also hurt during the crackdown.
The Private and Boarding Schools Association of Nepal (PABSON) and some other such bodies, in separate statements, said they will not open the schools until democracy is restored. They extended their support to the pro-democracy agitation launched by the seven-party alliance.
The United Nation Human Rights High Commission is taking up seriously the issue of repressive measures being adopted by the army and police against the peaceful demonstrators in Nepal, according to Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (OHCHR) Nepal.
With Agency inputs
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