He was wrong with an electronic voting machine and as a punishment he cut off a finger

He was desperate because he had just made a mistake by voting in the legislative elections that are currently taking place in India and, as a punishment, he cut his index finger with a butcher's ax. It happened when Pawan Kumar went to vote on Thursday, April 18 and confused the symbols displayed on the electronic voting machine. The man voted for the party of the nationalist prime minister, Nerendra Modi, and not by his candidate, who is presented in his state of Uttar Pradesh (north).

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Obscured and in repentance, He went home and mutilated. In this country, the polling stations are electronic, but the index of each voter is marked in indelible ink once he has voted so that he can not vote again. , according to the agency. AFP. The images of the event became viral in the networks.

"I wanted to vote for the elephant and he went to the flower," explained the man in a second video, which shows the butcher's ax on the ground and Kumar beside, holding his hand with a bandage instead of amputated finger. In this country, the lotus flower is the symbol of the ruling party and the elephant is that of a coalition opposed to the prime minister of Uttar Pradesh.

A man dalit in a village in Bulandshahr cuts himself off a finger that "erroneously presses the BJP button on EVM instead of BSP" @ Mayawati @ BJP4India 2nd phase # LokSabhaElections2019 #Poll pic.twitter.com/lUEWcpwOVK

– Sandeep Rai (@RaiSandeepTOI) April 18, 2019

The marathon elections at India They started on April 11th. The electoral process lasts 38 days and is divided into seven different stages until May 19th. There are more than 900 million people eligible to vote for more than 450 candidates. The favorite is the prime minister Narendra Modi, from the Bharatiya Janata Party (Indian People's Party).

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In this context, about 158 ​​million voters from the Southeast Asian giant were called to elect their deputies in 95 constituencies, mainly located in the south and east of the country. Throughout the process, a total of one million voting centers will be needed to elect the 543 deputies of the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian Parliament. "It's literally the biggest democratic exercise ever in the history of the world," Carnegie Endowment for International Peace expert Milan Vaishnav said last week.

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