24 April,2009 12:49 PM IST | | B V Shivashakar
Just cross a bylane, and you'll find a helpful gang ready with a chemical that will wipe out the indelible ink on your finger
Congress supporters in Chamarajpet were busy yesterday supplying a liquid that could erase the indelible mark on voters' fingers.
MiD DAY found a shed full of Congress supporters. The action took place at a place owned by a Congress supporter.
The sting
1. Three of us entered the shed around the same time, seeking to have the marks on our fingers erased. The MiD DAY volunteer said, "I need to vote again in the third phase." (Yesterday was the second phase).
2. Five or six men called us over, and started applying a colourless liquid on our fingers. They started talking to themselves in Tamil that the mark on the volunteer's finger wasn't going away.
3. "You have voted a while ago, that's why the mark is so stubborn," one of the men told us. Another said voters who had come earlier had gone back and successfully voted a second time.
What's in the bottle?
>>It's a thinner available at any stationery store.
>>It is used with the liquid used to mask mistakes on typed sheets.
>>The colourless liquid is mixed with a white-coloured correction fluid, and applied on typing errors.
>>During election time, it becomes the 'spirit' of democracy!
