Guwahati (Assam) [India], May 3 (ANI): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance secured a comfortable majority in Assam Assembly elections paving its way to form the government in the state winning 75 seats of the total 126 constituencies.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance secured a comfortable majority in Assam Assembly elections paving its way to form the government in the state winning 75 seats of the total 126 constituencies. As per the Election Commission, the BJP secured 60 seats, about 33.2 per cent of the total vote share, while allies Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) and United People s Party, Liberal (UPPL) bagged nine and six seats respectively. The counting of votes, which began at 8 am on Sunday, ended at around 5:40 am on Monday.
Congress managed to secure 29 seats (29.7 per cent vote share) while its Mahajoth allies AIUDF won 16, and Bodoland People s Front bagged four. The Communist Party of India (Marxist) secured one seat.
The ruling Trinamool Congress was ahead of the BJP in the keenly watched state of West Bengal while the DMK had an edge in Tamil Nadu as trends poured in for counting of votes on Sunday in the high-stakes assembly elections in four states and a union territory. In Assam, the ruling BJP-led NDA was leading in 22 seats, while the Grand Alliance spearheaded by the Congress is ahead in 15 places, according to initial trends available from counting of postal ballots in Assam, officials said. The ruling LDF in Kerala was leading in 75 of the total 140 seats while opposition UDF was ahead in 56 segments as counting of votes for the April 6 assembly elections got underway.
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Mamata Banerjee s Trinamool Congress is ahead in West Bengal, where the BJP seems to have made gains since the 2019 national elections. In Tamil Nadu, the opposition DMK is way ahead with party chief MK Stalin and son leading in their respective seats. In neighbouring Kerala, the ruling Left-led LDF front - which is hoping to end a four-decade trend by retaining power - is past the halfway mark, early trends from the state show
In Assam, the BJP is ahead of its nearest rival Congress, which campaigned hard to reclaim its one-time bastion.
The ruling BJP-led NDA is leading on 33 seats, while the Grand Alliance led by the Congress is ahead on eight assembly constituencies, elections officials said on Sunday. According to the Election Commission s initial trends of the results, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party is leading on 27 seats while its ally Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) on six seats and United People s Party Liberal (UPPL) on six. The Congress has established initial leads only on five seats while its partners Bodoland Peoples Front on two seats and All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) on one seat. Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and AGP chief and minister Atul Bora are leading from Majuli, Jalukbari and Bokakhat seats respectively.