Two decades after ousting their king, Nepalese protesters want him back - ‘I was in the protests that took away monarchy, but I was mistaken’

Nearly 10,000 crowded the streets outside Kathmandu International Airport, where King Gyanendra Shah landed in a chartered jet after 2 months away in Pokhara.

Thousands of supporters attend pro-monarchy rally at airport as ex-king returns to the capital from the country’s west.

Protests in 2006 forced the king to give up his authoritarian rule, and two years later the parliament voted to abolish the monarchy.

Thousands of supporters have greeted Nepal’s former king in capital Kathmandu and demanded his abolished monarchy be reinstated and Hinduism brought back as a state religion.

Thousands of pro-monarchists on Sunday hit the streets of Kathmandu to welcome the former King Gyanendra Shah upon his arrival from Pokhara. The former King was welcomed by supporters from the Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) and pro-monarchy organizations who chanted slogans against the existing political system.

Thousands welcome former King Gyanendra Shah in Kathmandu, sparking renewed calls for the restoration of Nepal`s monarchy. Protests highlight dissatisfaction with the current political system.

Nepal's former king Gyanendra Shah was welcomed back to Kathmandu on Sunday by thousands of supporters who have been staging pro-monarchy demonstrations in the Himalayan republic. Shah's supporters cheered and waved Nepal's flag,