A man cut his finger after voting for the wrong party in India

An Indian citizen, desperate because he had just voted for a party different from the one he wanted in the current parliamentary elections in India, the index was cut with a butcher's ax.

In a video that quickly became viral on social media, Pawan Kumar explained that by voting on Thursday, he had confused the symbols displayed on the electronic machine. voted for the party of the nationalist prime minister, Nerendra Modi, and not for the rival candidate presented in his state of Uttar Pradesh (north).

Embarrbaded and angry, he went home and cut off his index finger. Even if the votes in the polling stations are electronic, each voter's index is marked with indelible ink once he has voted that he can not vote again.

In a second video, you can see the butcher's ax on the ground and Kumar, holding his hand with a bandage instead of the amputated finger.

"I wanted to vote for the elephant and I went to get the flower", explains in the video.

The lotus flower is the symbol of the party in power. The elephant is that of a coalition opposed to the prime minister of Uttar Pradesh.

Thursday was the second day of the electoral marathon in India, which began on April 11 and will end on May 19.