KATHMANDU, Nov. 9 -- Pro-monarch leader Durga Prasai, who has been preparing for an anti-establishment movement, has called for unity against the Kathmandu Metropolitan City's move to remove squatter settlement.

Visiting a squatter settlement today at Manohara river banks in Bhaktapur side, Prasai vowed that such an attempt would not be allowed to succeed. KMC's one-week ultimatum to vacate public land ended on Friday as the city police began to use dozers in the squatter settlements.

Addressing a corner meeting at the Manohara squatter area, he warned that he would "lock horn" with Kathmandu Mayor Balen Shah and Metropolitan Police Chief Raju Pandey.

Speaking earlier at a program held at a public school premise in Madhyapur Thimi-1, ...