Did Sundar Pichai cast his vote?

April 19, 2019 09:50

A media house was caught on the wrong foot when it tweeted pictures of Google Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai surrounded by people stating that he had 'marked his vote in this election'.

The picture went viral, with many retweeting the news.

Some Twitter users from the state -- Pichai hails from Tamil Nadu -- also pointed out how a recent movie, Vijay-starrer Sarkar, had a character, Sundar Ramasamy, CEO of a multinational, who had returned to the country to cast his vote during an election.

Sarkar's Ramasamy went to the extent of conducting a fresh election and forming a government on his own after finding that somebody had cast his vote.

But as it turned out, Business Standard reveals, the Pichai video was from a tweet in 2017, when he visited his alma mater IIT Kharagpur.

In any case, being a US citizen, the Google CEO cannot cast his vote in an Indian election.

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