The Election Commission on Sunday restrained actor and philanthropist Sonu Sood from visiting polling stations in his hometown Moga in Punjab over complaints that he was influencing voters. For the previous a number of days, he was going from home to deal with in scores of villages with folded palms and a smile on his lips to drum up help for his sister Malvika Sood Sachar, who’s contesting the Punjab Assembly polls.

Officials instructed IANS that Sonu Sood’s automotive was impounded after a criticism from a supporter of Shiromani Akali Dal candidate Barjinder Singh, alias Makhan Brar. Sonu Sood was requested to remain inside his home. “A flying squad team has been deputed outside Sood’s house,” returning officer Satwant Singh told the media.

Moga District PRO Pradbhdeep Singh told ANI, “Sonu Sood was trying to enter a polling booth. During this, his car was confiscated and he was sent home. Action will be taken against him if he steps out of his house.”

However, the actor denied the allegations that he was trying to influence voters. “I’m a local resident. I have not asked anyone to vote for any particular candidate or party. I was just visiting our booths set up outside polling stations,” he stated.

His sister Malvika joined the Congress only a week forward of the pronouncement of the polls for 117 Assembly seats. She has changed sitting Congress legislator Harjot Kamal, who joined the BJP and is once more within the fray to retain the seat that has been the Congress stronghold since 2007.

Malvika, 39, married and working her parental household enterprise in Moga, had instructed IANS that she has taken the political plunge to dedicate herself to serve the society like her brother.

Sonu Sood’s childhood buddies in his hometown, some 175 km from the state capital Chandigarh, described him because the messiah of tens of hundreds of determined migrants amidst pandemic and supporting faculty educations of scores of underprivileged, whereas his household believes his philanthropy spirit comes from his ancestry.

Born to a enterprise household, the siblings’ father was within the fabric enterprise and mom was an English lecturer on the town’s oldest D.M. College of Education. Their eldest sister is settled within the US.

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