Chiranjeevi jumps queue at Hyderabad polling booth, voter says ’do you need special treatment?

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Hyderabad, April 30: You may be a filmstar and a minister, but please don’t jump the queue. That is the terse message Congress leader K. Chiranjeevi got from a miffed young voter when he tried skip the long line outside a polling booth in Hyderabad.

 

"Do you need special treatment?" the voter, later identified as Kartik, asked Chiranjeevi after the actor-turned-politician and his family members tried to walk into the polling centre even as others were standing in the queue. 

The superstar was taken aback. Immediately, people at the polling centre applauded Kartik, who told Chiranjeevi to go to the back of the line.
K. Chiranjeevi

 

 

Accompanied by his security guards, Chiranjeevi, his wife, their actor son Ramcharan Teja and other family members were initially standing in the queue at the polling centre in the posh Jubliee Hills neighbourhood, IANS reported.

When some people invited them in the booth, they broke the queue and were proceeding inside.

As a voter raised the objection, Chiranjeevi tried to pacify him. The actor and other family members went back and stood in the queue to cast their vote.

Later, the minister tried to clarify the embarrassing situation: "I never violate rules. I had just left the queue to see if my name was there in the voting list. The media is overreacting," he told reporters.

 But Kartik said though he respected Chiranjeevi, he should have followed the queue. "He is not over 65 or disabled," he said.