Video: MLA From Jagan Reddy's Party Slaps Voter In Polling Queue, He Hits Back

In a video that has now gone viral, Tenali's YSR Congress Party MLA A Sivakumar is seen approaching the voter and slapping him across the face.

In a brazen show of VIP culture, an Andhra Pradesh MLA slapped a voter, reportedly after he had objected to the legislator jumping the queue at a polling booth in Guntur district this morning. Voter who objected to #Guntur District #TenaliMLA#Sivakumar jumping queue, was slapped by him & voter returned in kind; ugly show of political musclepower as the @ysrcp MLA candidate's henchmen joined attack on voter #BoothViolence#ElectionsWithNDTV#AndhraPradeshElections2024pic.twitter.com/Z5wK0enrWK

In a video that has now gone viral, Tenali's YSR Congress Party MLA A Sivakumar is seen approaching the voter and slapping him across the face. The voter returns the blow, and the MLA's aides join him in launching an all-out assault on the voter. Other voters waiting for their turn are seen trying to stop the assault as the MLA's aides keep hitting the voter. In the 10-second video, no security personnel can be seen intervening to rescue the voter.

It is not clear what exactly happened before the exchange of blows began, but the MLA's attack on the voter has come under strong criticism on social media.