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17-year-old votes eight times for Modi

Tuesday, 21 May 2024


NEW DELHI, May 20 (AFP): Indian police on Monday detained an ineligible 17-year-old for voting eight times for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling party, as rivals screamed voter fraud in the ongoing national polls.
The Election Commission of India suspended poll officials and ordered a fresh vote at the polling station after the excited minor's video of himself voting for the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), went viral.
"This is the second vote," the boy says, smiling into his phone's camera after pressing the electronic voting machine button for a BJP candidate in Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state and a political bellwether.