Akshay Kumar dodges question about not voting

Actor Akshay Kumar Actor Akshay Kumar  chose to evade a  question about not voting in the Lok Sabha elections here, and walked away.Akshay, who recently grabbed headlines for his “non-political” interview with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has been widely trolled for not casting his vote on Monday.”Chaliye, chaliye (let’s go, let’s go)” is how Akshay responded when at a special screening of the film Blank on Tuesday, a mediaperson asked him about giving voting a miss. He then walked away.The actor has established his image as Bollywood’s posterboy of patriotism with films like Kesari, Baby, Holiday – A Soldier Is Never Off Duty and Airlift.The fact that he missed voting gave trolls a field day with jokes and memes.Akshay was one of the prominent Bollywood celebrities whom Modi had tagged in a tweet, asking him to encourage voting. And the actor had duly complied.”The true hallmark of a democracy lies in people’s participation in the electoral process. Voting has to be a superhit ‘prem katha’ between our nation and its voters,” Akshay had tweeted. (IANS)