Pawan Kumar | Photo Credit: Times Now

New Delhi: A Dalit voter in Bulandshahr constituency chopped off his finger after he accidentally pressed the button of the BJP symbol on the EVM instead of the BSP at the polling booth during the second phase of the Lok Sabha elections yesterday. The man identified as Pawan Kumar, 25, is a resident of Abdullapur Hulasan village in Shikarpur area and he is said to have used a sickle to chop off his finger.

The man later released a video to regret his mistake and since then it is going viral on social media.

As per the media reports, Kumar had gone to vote with an intention to vote in favour of the SP-BSP-RLD alliance candidate Yogesh Verma but instead, he voted for the sitting MP and BJP candidate Bhola Singh by mistake. Frustrated by this blunder he chopped off his finger.

#Watch: Shocker coming in from Bulandshahr, as a BSP supporter chopped off his finger after he allegedly pressed the wrong button on the EVM and voted for BJP instead. #LokSabhaElections2019 pic.twitter.com/1YqYIr2QWq — Mohit Sharma (@iMohit_Sharma) April 18, 2019

Singh had received a notice from the Election Commission for a poll code violation and was placed under house confinement for a day after he allegedly sought blessings from voters at JP Janata Inter College polling station of his constituency in Uttar Pradesh.

In the viral video, Singh was seen inside the booth seeking blessings from the people.

"A candidate can visit polling booths in his constituency but cannot speak to the voters there. When we came to know that he (Singh) sought blessings from voters inside a polling station, we served him a notice and ordered confinement for a day,” ANI quoted Bulandshahr District Collector Abhay Singh as saying.

When he entered the booth with his supporters he was stopped by the security officials and he told them that he had the permission of District Magistrate and Returning Officer Abhay Singh to enter the booth.

Meanwhile, in a quid-pro-quo political alliance, the Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav will share the dais with his erstwhile archrival BSP chief Mayawati at a joint rally of the SP-BSP-RLD alliance in Mainpuri after 25 years.

The rally has been planned to showcase the proclaimed 'strong bond' between the two parties which were once fierce political rivals in the largest state of the country.

Both Mulayam Singh Yadav and Mayawati have been bitter rivals since 1995 when SP cadres attacked the state guest house where the BSP chief was holding meetings with her supporters. Mayawati was saved by a BJP leader Brahm Dutt Dwivedi.