The counting of votes for the Assam AssemblyElections began at 8 am on Sunday. According to the early trends, BJP hasclearly got the majority of 64 seats to form the government in the state.
In this election, BJP is near to scripthistory to form government by becoming the only non-Congress party to win for the secondconsecutive term. As per the sources, it was only Assam where BJP is in strongtiff to retain power.
According to the EC official trends, BJPis likely to retain power in Assam as the party was leading on 47 seats whilethe Congress was on five seats.
At 10:27 am, the EC official trendssuggested that BJP is leading on 30 seats with Congress on 8.