Polling in Telangana turned out to be a day of embarrassment and disappointment for two film stars.
Actor-turned-Union Minister Chiranjeevi had to join a long queue of voters at Jubilee Hills Club polling station when a voter, Kartik, waiting his turn objected to his family barging in to the booth out of turn.
The film star accompanied by his wife, daughter, and son actor Ramcharan Teja, followed by the TV cameras arrived at the polling station and headed inside, a voter objected to it.
He requested Chiranjeevi to ask him family to join the queue. Though taken aback initially, Chiranjeevi responded positively with folded hands. The actor and his family joined the queue and cast their votes when their turn came.
Kartik became an instant hero among the voters present, said, “We were waiting for nearly one-and-a-half hours when the family came. I requested them to join the queue,” he said.
However, Chiranjeevi denied that he tried to jump the line. “I was going inside to find out whether my name was there on the list or not,” he said blaming the media for blowing the incident out of proportion.
In another case, a popular Telugu actor and comedian Brahamanandam, who was Election Commission’s ambassador for the awareness campaign among the voters to exercise their franchise was shocked to find his name missing from the voter’s list on Wednesday.
When Brahamanandam and his wife came to a polling station in the posh Jubilee Hills area to cast their votes, the staff told them that their names were not there in the list. “I am very disappointed. It is incomprehensible how my name can be deleted when I am staying at the same old place and I have voted here in the past”, the actor said.