NEW DELHI: A blunt message from India to cede power notwithstanding, Nepal’s embattled ruler Gyanendra on Thursday refused to make any commitment that he would hand over the reins to the seven-party alliance without dictating who heads the government. All that he agreed to do was to make a statement on the official TV promising restoration of democracy. He refused to offer any details on the form and content of what he has in mind. On the Indian conditionality, too, that he should leave the choice of prime ministership to the pro-democracy alliance, the monarch remained non-committal. The royal cussedness during the two-hour meeting with India’s special envoy Karan Singh and foreign secretary Shyam Saran even as Kathmandu streets erupted in fury, left India on tenterhooks about the shape of things to come. - http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1498290.cms Karan Singh and Shyam Saran delivered a blunt message to Gyanendra: he should transfer power to SPA to bring his country back from the brink. This was also the essence of a letter from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to the monarch, which was delivered by Karan Singh. The essential demand by India was that Gyanendra should let parties choose their own leaders rather than being appointed by him; in short, the new government should have full executive powers. The subsequent details of a constituent assembly, polls etc will be worked out by the SPA government, said the Indian roadmap that covers release of political prisoners