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KATHMANDU, Friday (AFP) More than 5,000 opposition party activists held an anti-monarchy demonstration in Nepal's capital Kathmandu, police sources said.

The five main opposition parties held the protest after a two-hour meeting of former MPs from the parliament which was dissolved a year ago.

On Wednesday around 10 of the ex-MPs were injured when baton-wielding police barred them from forcibly reopening the assembly.

"We want King Gyanendra either to reinstate the parliament or to form an all party government to make necessary arrangements to hold parliamentary elections," NC party activist Bhogendra Banstola told the meeting of over 200 former MPs at the Royal Nepal Academy Hall.

Earlier some 200 politicians, prevented from entering the parliament shut down a year ago, instead convened in a nearby building, passed a resolution condemning "police brutality" and said they would hold another meeting of "parliament" Thursday.

The MPs from the dissolved house were among 10,000 demonstrators who marched toward parliament but were stopped by riot police who charged them with batons and lobbed tear-gas grenades, an AFP correspondent witnessed.

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