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mo4ch:>Indian man 'chops off finger' after voting for wrong party by mistake | Mo4ch News

An Indian man who accidentally voted for the wrong party in the country’s general election says he was so disgusted with himself that he chopped off his index finger to atone for the mistake.In a video that has gone viral in India, Pawan Kumar says he accidentally ended up voting for the governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) because he was confused by the symbols on the voting machine.Indian voting machines use symbols beside the names of candidates so that people who cannot read are still able to vote. The 25-year-old cast his vote in the second phase of polling in the general election in Bulandshahr in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.In the video, Kumar explains that he wanted to vote for the Bahujan Samaj Party, which has a lot of support in Uttar Pradesh, but instead of pressing the BSP’s elephant button, he pressed the button with the lotus, which represents the ruling Hindu nationalist BJP.Also on rt.com‘Don’t think about suicide’: Indian FM Swaraj tweets to man trapped in …