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(From The Statesman (India))
Sudeshna Sarkar KATHMANDU, April 25: After leading a successful peoples movement against King Gyanendras autocratic rule, three-time former prime minister and opposition leader Mr Girija Prasad Koirala, who was named Nepals new prime minister today, will now have to grapple with another grave challenge: an indefinite blockade of Kathmandu valley and its neighbouring districts called by the Maoists. As the King made a near midnight proclamation yesterday and conceded the opposition parties demand for restoration of parliament, there was jubilation in the kingdom that there would finally be peace but it was shortlived. By the time the seven …