With competition among political parties to show their strength, the Rastriya Janashakti Party (RJP), which was formed after the split in the Rastriya Prajatantra Party nearly one year ago, announced a new technique to increase its strength.

The RJP has announced that it will provide cash prizes to the people forming various units [committees] of the party in Nuwakot district, a newspaper report said.

Addressing the first meeting of party activists in Nuwakot district on Wednesday, central member of the RJP Ana Bahadur Pyakurel said that formation of the party units before the end of the year in the district would be given a cash prize of Rs 3,000.

He further said that three regional teams would be formed in Nuwakot district within mid April. He also said that necessary steps are being taken to form party units in all the 61 VDCs and in Bidur Municipality in the district and the cash prize would be given to the organisations, which include Dalits, Janajatis and women.

The three regional teams would be lead by Major Sher Bahadur Kahatri in region one, Krishna Prasad Pandey in region two and Bam Bahadur Tamang in region three of the district, reports Nepal Samacharpatra daily.

Pyakurel also informed that the party will not be participating in the upcoming municipal elections as the party believes that the problems faced by the country could not be resolved through the elections in absence of major political parties.

The alliance of seven political parties is boycotting the municipal polls terming the election as a ploy to legitimize the royal government. n