With a lead/win in 550 out of 619 Zilla Parishad Zones while the BJP and Congress fighting for the distant second spot, the ruling BJD is all set to capture all 30 Zilla Parishads in the State without any resistance.
The Congress Party, which is fighting a survival battle and now threatens to replace the BJP as the No. 2 party in the ongoing Panchayat Polls, is at the 3rd spot with 30 seats. Interestingly, 25 out of these 30 seats are from South Odisha.
The ruling BJD's victory march continues unabated for the second consecutive day, as the party has comfortably surpassed its 2017 tally of 476 Zilla Parishad Zones by leading/winning in 533 seats out of 608 trends received so far.
