Bihar MP Shambhavi Chaudhary Flaunts Ink On Both Hands After Voting, Patna Admin Calls It 'Error'

A video of LJP (Ram Vilas) MP Shambhavi Chaudhary showing ink marks on both hands after casting her vote in the first phase of the Bihar Legislative Assembly Election 2025 has sparked a social-media storm, fuelling allegations of double-voting and procedural lapses.

In a widely shared video, filmed outside a polling station in Patna’s Buddha Colony, the 27-year-old MP from Samastipur is seen posing with her father, JD(U) leader Ashok Chaudhary, and mother Neeta Chaudhary.

First, she raises her right hand to display an ink mark on her finger, then switches to her left hand, also bearing an ink mark.

#WATCH | Patna | JDU leader Ashok Chaudhary, his wife Nita Chaudhary, daughter and LJP Ram Vilas MP Shambhavi Chaudhary cast their vote at a polling

booth at Buddha Colony’s ST Paul School pic.twitter.com/r8ts2SIQcB

— ANI (@ANI) November 6, 2025

As the video went viral, the Patna District Administration issued a release on the same, saying that the polling staff responsible for applying ink had mistakenly applied it to the finger of the right hand first. He then also applied ink to the finger of her left hand.

“A video is being circulated on social media regarding ink marks on both fingers of MP Shambhavi after casting her vote. In this connection, inquiries were made from the Presiding Officer of Polling Station No. 61, Sant Paul’s Primary School, Buddha Colony (Northern Room of the Main Section) of 182-Bankipur Assembly Constituency,” the Patna District Administration said.

“He has clarified that the polling staff responsible for applying ink had mistakenly applied it to the finger of the right hand. After the intervention of the Presiding Officer, ink was also applied to the finger of her left hand,” it said.

“It is being clarified that the Shambhavi cast her vote only at Serial No. 275 of the voter list of Polling Station No. 61, Sant Paul’s Primary School, Buddha Colony (Northern Room of the Main Section) of 182-Bankipur Assembly Constituency,” the post read.

The clarification came following RJD spokesperson Kanchana Yadav’s X post, wherein she termed the incident a “whole different level of fraud”.

“Election Commission, how is all this happening? Who will investigate this?” she asked.

सोशल मीडिया पर माननीय सांसद श्रीमती शाम्भवी के मतदान के पश्चात दोनों अंगुली पर स्याही के निशान लगे होने के संबंध में वीडियो प्रसारित हो रहा है। इस संबंध में 182-बाँकीपुर विधान सभा के मतदान केन्द्र सं.-61 संत पॉल्स प्राईमरी स्कूल, बुद्धा कॉलोनी (मुख्य भाग का उत्तरी कमरा) के… https://t.co/WjuyyqVhha

— District Administration Patna (@dm_patna) November 7, 2025

The Congress party too, in an X post, shared the screengrabs of Shambhavi after she cast her vote, and called it all a “game”.

गजब खेला है 😉 pic.twitter.com/DKbGp3oVKZ

— Congress (@INCIndia) November 7, 2025

The LJP is contesting on 29 seats in the Bihar assembly elections 2025.

The 243 Assembly seats went to the polls in the first phase on November 6 and will vote for the second phase on November 11, with counting of votes to be held on November 14.

This electoral contest will be between the NDA, led by the BJP, and Janata Dal (United) (JD(U)), and the INDIA bloc, led by Tejashwi Yadav of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD).

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