Summary:
Idarjaan Barbhuiyan of Congress was declared the winner.Five other candidates - one anchalik panchayat candidate under Lalamukh gram panchayat, three gram panchayat members under Nischintapur and one under Panchgram in Hailakandi - also emerged winners through tossing of coins. An election official informed that Jawaharlal Agrohai and Sanjib Narayan Dusad, both Independents, were tied for the No 3 Lalamukh gram panchayat seat. A senior election official said it was decided to select the winner by the toss of a coin as there was a tie between two candidates. The winner was thus decided by the toss of a coin on Thursday. "The candidates whose results were tied at the end of counting of votes accepted the verdict gracefully without any fuss," said Hailakandi zilla parishad CEO NKSK Singha..