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Assam bypoll result: BJP set to retain Majuli seat once held by ex-CM Sonowal
Assam bypolls result: According to Election Commission website, Bhuban Gam of the BJP has garnered nearly 70 per cent of votes in eight rounds of counting
The Bharatiya Janata Party has achieved a massive lead in the bypolls to Assam's Majuli seat in eight rounds of counting of votes, the Election Commission of India reported. Bhuban Gam of the BJP received 36,105 and was leading over Chittaranjan Basumatary of the Assam Jatiya Parishad by over 22,000 votes. According to the ECI website, the BJP candidate has got nearly 70 per cent of the vote share over his nearest AJP rival who got 25 per cent votes.
Majuli seat was vacated by former Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal who resigned after he became a union minister. The Congress had won the seat thrice between 2001 and 2011. This time, it decided to let its ally AJP contest the seat. The newly formed party had failed to win a single seat in the Assembly polls held last year.
Besides the by polls, counting of votes is underway for five election bound states of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa, Punjab and Manipur.
The BJP is all set to retain UP with a comfortable majority. The saffron party is also ahead in Goa, Manipur and Uttarakhand. In Punjab, the Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party is set to form the government under Bhagwant Mann.
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