Dalit man, who accidentally cast his vote for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr, has chopped off his index finger for the “mistake”.
Pawan Kumar, in a video clip that has gone viral on socialmedia, can be heard saying that he got confused with too many symbols on thevoting machine and pressed the wrong button on Thursday.
“I wanted to vote for the elephant, but I voted for theflower by mistake,” he said in the video.
Kumar had gone to vote in the Shikarpur area in Bulandshahrand cast his vote for BJP’s Bhola Singh instead of the Bahujan Samj Party’sYogesh Varma.
He said he was a Dalit and it was his duty to vote for the elephant (the BSP symbol). He added that the ink mark on his index finger reminded him of his mistake for which he chopped it off.