Jaipur, Dec 9 (TIWN) In a major shocker to the ruling Congress government in state, the saffron party in Rajasthan swept 1,911 seats in the recently held panchayat samiti elections while the Congress was limited to 1,781 seats.

The Independents gained 425 seats, the Bahujan Samaj Party got 3 seats while CPI-M captured 16 seats in the elections while RLP got 57 seats, according to the state election commission website.   The results for 4,239 seats were announced out of 4,371. The counting was still underway.  BJP's winning streak continued with Panchayat Samiti elections where they have won the Zila Parishad elections where BJP won 353 seats while Congress was limited to 252.