Bhubaneswar, Feb 18: In the third phase of the 3-tier panchayat elections, in Boudh, the ruling BJD will be forming the ZP after claiming 1 zone in the 3rd phase taking its tally to six out of total nine zones. BJD’s dominance continues in Jagatsinghpur as the party has claimed 5 out of the 8 zones which went for polls in the 3 phase. While BJP won in 2 zones, Congress claimed 1 zone. The BJD has now won 13 zones in the first three phases out of 26 zones. Similarly in Kendrapara, BJD made a clean sweep by claiming all the 7 zones which went for polling. In Khurda, out of 7 zones, 6 went to BJD and 1 to BJP.
On the other side, BJP won 62 Zilla Parishad (ZP) zones thus closely following BJD that topped by claiming 87 out of 169 from the 175 Zilla Parishad zones. Congress’ dismal performance continued as it was able to win only 15 seats. BJP is now 1 zone short of forming the ZP in Sonepur after it acquired all the 4 zones in the third phase BJP now has 6 zones out of the total 13 zones in Sonepur. BJP’s shocking performance continued in the 3rd phase after it won in all 7 zones. BJP has won all the zones in all the 3 phases in Kalahandi. Out of the total 36 zones, BJP’s tally is now 25. In Bargarh, BJP emerged as winner in 7 out of 8 ZP zones taking its tally to 15. The party is now 3 zones short of forming the ZP in Bargarh.
