Kathmandu, Feb. 14 -- With the Free Student Union (FSU) elections less than a month away, student unions have ramped up their preparations for the polls to be held in colleges across the country.

Nepali Congress, the mother party of the Nepal Students Union (NSU), appears ahead of other political parties as a party leader, who is in charge of the student wing, has started holding meetings and discussions with the student leaders from other parties in view of the polls to be held on March 18.

The Congress formed a steering committee led by Kishor Singh Rathore, a joint general secretary of the party, and entrusted it with coordinating among NSU leaders for the FSU elections.

Rathore on Wednesday met with the Congress-affiliated student ...