Kathmandu, June 13 -- Sujan Kadariya has been elected chairman of All Nepal National Free Students Union (ANNFSU), the student wing of the CPN-UML.

He got the student organisation's top position defeating his rival Prakash Paudel by 7 votes in an election held in Kathmandu on Thursday.

Kadariya, who was secretary in the previous central committee of the organisation, secured 732 votes while Paudel garnered 725, according to a press note issued by the election committee after the election.

The ANNFSU got the leadership from a younger generation after the organisation introduced a 32-year age bar to become eligible to contest election in the organisation from this convention.

Several other aspirants had to exit from the race to lead the...