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B-Town turns out to vote as Maharashtra goes to Assembly polls

Published: 21 Oct 2019 - 02:15 pm | Last Updated: 01 Nov 2021 - 09:09 am
Bollywood actor Aamir Khan shows his inked finger after casting his vote at a polling station during the state assembly election in Mumbai on October 21, 2019. / AFP / Sujit Jaiswal

Bollywood actor Aamir Khan shows his inked finger after casting his vote at a polling station during the state assembly election in Mumbai on October 21, 2019. / AFP / Sujit Jaiswal

IANS

Mumbai: Bollywood celebs made their presence felt as responsible Indian citizens by casting their valuable votes at the Maharashtra Assembly Polls 2019 in Mumbai on Monday.

Superstar Aamir Khan was one of the early birds snapped coming out of the polling booth. He happily posed for shutterbugs flaunting the ink on his left-hand index finger.

Bollywood actor Salman Khan leaves after casting his vote at a polling station during the state assembly election in Mumbai on October 21, 2019. / AFP / Sujit Jaiswal
 

Deepika Padukone, Hrithik Roshan, Varun Dhawan, John Abraham, Vidya Balan, Anil Kapoor, and Madhuri Dixit were among celebrities who were also spotted exercising their right to vote.

As the day progressed, several B-Towners turned up at booths to make their opinion count, including Dharmendra, Preity Zinta, Juhi Chawla, Soha Ali Khan, Prem Chopra, Lara Dutta with husband Mahesh Bhupathi, Vivek Oberoi with father Suresh Oberoi, filmmaker-writer-poet Gulzar, writer-lyricist Javed Akhtar, writer Salim Khan and filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar.

Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone shows her inked finger after casting her vote at a polling station during the state assembly election in Mumbai on October 21, 2019. / AFP / Sujit Jaiswal

 

Some of the celebs took to Twitter to urge fans to go and cast their vote. Sharing a selfie flaunting her inked index finger, Madhuri tweeted: "Have you voted? #MaharashtraAssemblyPolls".

Covering half of his face with his left hand flaunting his index finger in a photo shared on Twitter, John Abraham posted, "Cast your vote!"

Sharing her selfie, Soha wrote: "Make yourself count today. Vote. #VoteMumbai #MaharashtraAssemblyPolls #MaharashtraElections2019"

Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan (L) interacts with officials as he casts his vote at a polling station during the state assembly election in Mumbai on October 21, 2019. / AFP / Sujit Jaiswal
 

Vivek shared a photo with his father, veteran actor Suresh Oberoi, on Twitter and wrote, "My family and I just voted, have you? This is not just our right but also our responsibility. Let's not take this right and privilege for granted. Urge you all to please go out & vote if you haven't already. #MaharashtraAssemblyPolls #AssemblyElections2019 #VoteKarMaharashtra".

After casting her vote, Juhi tweeted with her photo: "Choose! Because you always have a choice. #MaharashtraAssemblyPolls".

Sharing his photo on Twitter, filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar tweeted, "#VoteKarMumbaikar #VoteKarMaharashtra #AssemblyElections2019".