All Nepal National Free Students Union (ANNFSU), the student wing of main opposition CPN-UML, staged a demonstration outside the minister's quarter in Pulchok on Monday demanding that the government announce the date of civic polls at the earliest.

They chanted various slogans like announce the date of local level elections, protect the constitution and democracy among others.

They also waved black flags to government spokesperson and Minister for Communications and Information Technology Gyanendra Bahadur Karki.

The tenure of the office bearers of the local levels is expiring in the third week of May. But the government has not fixed the date yet.

As the Election Commission needs at least 120 days to make preparations for the elections, the poll body and the main opposition party CPN-UML have been piling pressure on the government to announce the date of local level elections.

The government, however, has decided to hold the local level elections by mid-June.