premise: Together they spearheaded mass protests in April that forced Gyanendra to abandon 14 months of absolute rule. He said he had seized direct power to crush the Maoist rebellion.
  After the king reinstated parliament, it promptly stripped him of most of his powers, and his future will be definitively decided in constituent assembly polls due to be held before June 2007.
  Although tainted by allegations of abuse of power, he is still revered by many in the deeply conservative kingdom as a Hindu deity.
  Meanwhile, Gyanendra and Queen Komal reportedly headed south for the winter to escape the cold, following pressure on them to keep a low profile after the peace deal.
   What caused Gyanendra to abandon absolute rule?
hypothesis: crush the Maoist rebellion