KATHMANDU, Nov. 5 (Xinhua) -- With the launching of its nationwide protest earlier this week, the main opposition party Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (UCPN-M) has recruited youths and began to impart military training to them in Sindhuli district in central Nepal.

    According to Thursday's eKantipur.com report, more than 100 youths have been acquiring military training in the district headquarters for the last one week.

    The UCPN-M source said that it had been providing training to the party activists of its youth wing, Young Communist League (YCL), who were selected from 13 areas of the district.

    According to Ramesh Baraili, an assistant trainer, the new recruits are now given physical fitness training. "We will train with warfare strategies soon after they complete the physical fitness training," he said.

    Baraili claimed the party would train its activists in all the 75 districts and it was initiated from Sindhuli.

    UCPN-M assistant district in-charge Rajan Dahal said that the party provided training to the YCL activists to control prevailing anarchies in the society. "The trainees should be ready for volunteer service and sacrifice if need be," he said.