Home Minister Ramesh Akhtar has asked the former king not to be under the illusion that monarchy can be an alternative to republic. Stating that they are trying to conspire against democracy, he said that the alternative to democracy is democracy.

The author, who reached Bajhang to inaugurate the District Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Project Implementation Unit office under the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority, said that the society cannot go in the opposite direction.

``The alternative of republic cannot be monarchy,'' he said, ``no one including former king stays in this illusion . A society that has gone to democracy, republic and federalism will not return to any autocracy.' Stating that there is an attempt to conspire against the state system of character including

, he claimed that the conspiracy will not succeed under any circumstances. "They are trying to spread the illusion that there is a wave of people in favor of the monarchy," he said, "There may be conspiracies against this system, but it is not true that there is a wave of people against the republic."