Jalandhar, Dec. 18 -- In Doaba region, though AAP had an upper hand in Hoshiarpur, it faced a tough neck-and-neck contest from the Congress in Jalandhar and Kapurthala, trends showed. In SBS Nagar, Congress candidates comfortably managed to win more zones than AAP.

The Doaba region has 66 zila parishad zones, of which AAP won 24, Congress 18, BSP three and SAD two. Two zones went to independent candidates. Of the 548 block samiti zones in the region, 186 went to AAP, 125 to Congress, 41 to SAD, 27 to BSP and 7 zones were won by the BJP. Independents bagged 32 zones. The results of the remaining zila parishad and block samiti zones were awaited.

Of the 10 zila parishad zones in SBS Nagar, the Congress won six while four zones went to AAP...