New Delhi: A brief exchange narrated by an Aaj Tak reporter has triggered a social media storm, after being interpreted by opposition leaders as evidence of widespread voter fraud in the recently concluded Bihar Assembly elections.

The controversy began when Congress spokesperson Supriya Shrinate posted a video clip on social media, in which the reporter casually recounts a conversation with an unnamed BJP worker in Patna.

According to the journalist, the worker claimed to have voted twice, once in the city and again in his village, by allegedly removing the indelible ink mark with sap from papaya leaves.

What was presented as a single incident is now being amplified as a symbol of electoral malpractice by sections of the opposition.

The video has gone viral, with over 438,000 views an

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