Voting is underway in Tribhuvan University-affiliated campuses across the country in the free student union election on Sunday.

Students have queued at the polling centres since early morning to cast their ballots to elect the members of free student unions for a two-year term.

The voting started at 8am and will continue until 4pm in the afternoon.

Elections will not be held in some campuses, inside and outside the Valley, due to various issues including padlocks by students.

Polls will not be held in seven out of 22 constituent campuses in Kathmandu Valley today.

Voting has started in other campuses of Kathmandu Valley apart from Amrit Science Campus, Tri-Chandra Campus, Ratna Rajya Laxmi Campus, Bishwo Bhasa Campus, Minbhawan Campus, Ayurveda Campus and Patan Campus, according to Pashupati Adhikari, member secretary of central monitoring and coordinating committee for free student union polls.

Things are not much better outside of the Valley. In Pokhara, the Janapriya Multiple Campus remains padlocked. So has the Biratnagar-based Mahendra Morang Campus and the Nursing College. At Dang’s Mahendra Bahumukhi Campus, which also remains padlocked, the election has been postponed to March 22.

The election is supposed to take place every two years but it hasn’t been held since 2017. That year, voting could take place in only 35 constituent campuses and some 100 community colleges. Differences among student unions, often boiling over to incidents of violence, disrupted the elections in the rest of the institutions.

Here are some photos of the voting captured by Post’s photo journalists Prakash Chandra Timilsena and Elite Joshi.