Kolkata, May 18: The ruling Trinamool Congress has swept the 2018 Panchayat Polls, the results for which continued to be declared till late last night.
From the final outcomes that have been announced so far, the ruling party led by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has won 90 per cent of the seats in the three-tier rural system,.
With just one year left for the crucial 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Mamata Banerjee led state government has implemented a few welfare schemes, which it said would benefit the people residing in rural areas.
In the 2016 assembly polls, rural voters strongly backed TMC and the party is hoping it will maintain the momentum. However, BJP’s surge will be a key factor in rural areas.
While TMC leaders have exuded confidence that they have the strategy to withstand the BJP’s exponential growth.
TMC emerged victorious in all of the 20 Zilla Parishads by Friday morning. The party has already won 29,585 seats in the Gram Panchayat elections and 3315 seats in Panchayat samiti. It is leading from a large number of seats.
The BJP which won 5,636 seats and leading in 21 seats emerged as the second largest party.
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) slipped to the third position from the second place it had occupied in the last panchayat polls in 2013. It won 1,118 gram panchayat seats and was ahead in another 10, the sources said.
The Congress is at the fourth position by winning 634 gram panchayat seats State Election Commission (SEC) sources said the TMC was ahead in another 148 gram panchayat seats for which counting was in progress. UNI
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