The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has taken a comprehensive lead over the Congress and other parties as counting of votes for Assam Panchayat elections 2018 continues. As per the state election commission, 45 per cent of the results declared so far has gone in BJP's favour. Assam State Election Commissioner H N Bora said the counting, which began on Wednesday, will continue throughout Thursday.
"Till now, we have results for 1,218 posts. Out of this, 1,089 posts are gaon panchayat members (GPM), 71 gaon panchayat presidents (GPP) and 58 anchalik panchayat members (APM). No final result of any zila parishad member (ZPM) is available," Bora said.
The BJP has bagged 481 GPM posts, followed by 294 by the Congress, 115 by AGP, 15 by AIUDF, five by CPI(M), two by CPI and Independents emerged victorious at 175 seats, Bora said.
The BJP won 33 GPP posts, Congress 20, AGP 10, AIUDF two posts and Independents six.
The BJP bagged 30 APM seats, while the Congress won 15, AGP 8 , AIUDF two and Independents bagged three.
"The counting is going on peacefully. No anomalies have been reported from any counting hall in any part of the state," Bora said.
The elections were held on December 5 and 9 to elect 21,990 GPM, 2,199 GPP, 2,199 APM and 420 ZPM across the state through ballot paper system.
An overall voting of 82 per cent voting was recorded. While there were 78,571 contestants, 734 were elected uncontested.
(With inputs from PTI)
