May 20, 2024
Ineligible 17-year-old voted eight times Modi: Police
UTTAR PRADESH: Indian police on Monday arrested an ineligible 17-year-old for voting eight times for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling party, as opponents clamored for voter fraud in the ongoing national polls. India’s Election Commission has suspended poll officials and ordered a new poll at the polling station after a video of an excited minor voting for the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) went viral. “This is the second vote,” the boy says, smiling into his phone camera after pressing the button on the electronic voting machine for a BJP candidate in Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state and


