KATHMANDU, JANUARY 25Voting is underway for the upcoming National Assembly election to fill vacancies starting from March 4. Vladimir Putin submits documents to register as a candidate for the Russian presidential election Bayern Munich to sign Spain winger Bryan Zaragoza from Granada at the end of the season The election started from 9.00 am and will last till 3.00 pm in the designated polling stations of the provinces.

As per the law, the election has to be held 35 days before the end of the tenure of the members.The province assembly members, rural municipality chairs and vice chairs, municipality mayors and deputy mayors will cast their vote in the election. There will be an electoral college comprising members of the Province Assembly and chairperson and vice-chairperson of the rural municipality and mayor and deputy mayor of the municipality.The weightage of a vote from Province Assembly members is 53 while it is 19 of a vote from chairpersons and vice-chairpersons of the rural municipalities and mayors and deputy mayors of municipalities.

With this, the total vote weightage will be 57,559.A total of 1,958 voters, including 549 provincial assembly members and chiefs and deputy chiefs of local levels, will cast their votes in the election.All necessary preparation have been completed, the election commission said. .

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