Patna: A video showing Samastipur MP Shambhavi Chaudhary flaunting ink marks on fingers of both hands went viral and triggered a furore after she voted in the first phase of Bihar Assembly elections on November 6.
The Congress called it ‘vote theft from both hands’, while a section of netizens mocked the Election Commission of India and questioned its credibility.
On Saturday, the Patna district administration cleared the ‘mystery’ behind the ink marks on two fingers.
Calling it a mistake by the polling staff, the district administration said that the person responsible for applying ink had mistakenly applied it to the finger of the right hand.
“After the intervention of the Presiding Officer, ink was also applied to the finger of the left hand. It is being clarified that the Honorable MP Smt. Shambhavi cast her vote only at Serial No. 275 of the voter list of Polling Station No. 61, Sant Paul’s Primary School, Buddha Colony (Northern Room of the Main Section) of 182-Bankipur Assembly Constituency,” Patna administration wrote on X.
Shambhavi faced allegations of voting twice, even as she maintained that it was a “human error” and should not be turned into an issue.