CHENNAI: The election official in Chennai where actor Rajnikanth cast his vote for the Lok Sabha elections on Thursday, has landed in trouble for a different reason: He had applied the indelible ink on the right index finger of the actor.

According to Election Commission rules, the ink should be applied on the left index finger. When a scribe asked about this, Chief Electoral Officer Satyabrata Sahoo said it could be a genuine mistake and he will inquire about it with the presiding official of the booth concerned.

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“Election Commission’s instructions is first it should be the left-hand index finger or the next finger or the next. If not, one can go for the right hand,” he told reporters at the Secretariat.

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The superstar was in the centre of a similar controversy during the 2016 Tamil Nadu assembly elections, when a man followed him to the polling booth and videographed him casting vote in favour of a particular party.