Actress Akshaya Hariharan claims someone else cast a vote with her name, different photo in Tamil Nadu Elections 2026

Akshaya Hariharan

Actor Akshaya Hariharan recently raised a complaint regarding her vote during the Tamil Nadu elections 2026, which were held on Thursday, April 23. The actor shared a video on social media, detailing how someone else had cast a vote on her name, leaving her with no other choice but to put an alternate vote and raise a complaint regarding the same.

Akshaya Hariharan claims someone else cast her vote

She took to X (formerly Twitter) to share a video in which she said, "Hi, I am just here to say that someone else has already cast my vote. It is really shocking. So I am from Velachery (in Tamil Nadu), and I didn't get my vote slip. Then, the details were shared online that my booth was in Adiyar, so I went to Adiyar and waited for an hour and then someone else had already cast my vote. There was another photo of a woman claiming to be 24 years old, and they put a fingerprint. My second name is Hariharan, so everything is correct on the paper, but only the photos are different. So they should have checked before, because how can someone else cast their vote for me?"

She further added, "Finally, after waiting for so much time, I finally cast my tender ballot vote or challenge vote, I am not really sure about that. I don't find it appropriate because it was just a paper, and they did not even seal it in front of me. How can you let things like this happen in the first place? No one had answers to my questions. It is really disappointing that things like this are happening… a few lawyers have got in touch with me, so I took the alternate vote, but what I did was the right thing, but I am going to raise a complaint to my nearest RO office."

Similarly, on her Instagram Stories, Akshaya shared a note, which read, "Doesn't feel like I have really voted. It is not the same as voting in a machine. It's just a paper and an envelope. This is the best I could do, though. Please don't waste your vote. You still have time."

Celebrities vote in Tamil Nadu Elections 2026

Several actors and celebrities turned up at polling booths on Thursday to cast their vote. Superstar Rajinikanth was among the first to vote, turning up early at the polling station. Vijay Sethupathi, Dhanush, Vikram, Khushbu Sundar, RJ Balaji, Sivakarthikeyan, Kamal Haasan, Shruti Haasan, Atlee, Radhika, Sarathkumar, Ilaiyaraaja, Vishal, R Parthiban, Pradeep Ranganathan, Arjun, Trisha and several others were also seen stepping out to cast their votes.