The All Nepal National Free Students’ Union (ANNFSU) affiliated to CPN-UML and the Nepal Students’ Union (NSU) affiliated to Nepali Congress won the majority of seats in the Free Students’ Union (FSU) election in campuses affiliated to Tribhuvan University and Mahendra Sanskrit University held across the country.

In results obtained so far, ANNFSU bagged 54 FSU chairman seats followed by NSU with 37 top posts and NC-D with 4, according to reports.

The candidates of the Nepal Students’ Council, student wing of Keshav Sthapit led Praja Parisad Party, won elections at the Koteswore Campus.

In many campuses, mixed panels comprising both the student unions won the election.

NSU’s Bhim Shris won the post of president at the TU Central Campus while all other posts went to the ANNFSU.

But the ANNFSU snatched the presidential post of Balmiki Bidhyapeeth, which is considered an NSU stronghold.

Report quoted NSU vice-president Pradip Poudel as saying that the NSU will have representation in as many as 47 different FSUs throughout the nation and will have presidents in 35 colleges.

The ANNFSU chief of the central department of press and publication said the union has won 43 panels throughout the nation and was involved in mixed panels at another 23 colleges, among which, the ANNFSU won the presidency at 11.

The overall voter turnout was 85 percent in the FSU election, against the voter turnout of 20 percent in the recently held municipal election.

The agitating student unions took the election as a part of their ongoing agitation for complete democracy and took part in a friendly manner.