Chitrangada's Sex change?

She says she’s done her homework on the candidates in her constituency, on the various political parties and their manifestos... she even started a campaign on a social networking site to get people to go out and vote.
Her problem is that she’s not sure which line she’s going to be made to stand in when she goes to vote – the men’s or the women’s. On her voter ID card, in front of ‘gender’, it says ‘male’.

“I just hope they don’t ask me to stand in the guys’ queue because of their own goof-up,” says Chitrangda. She’d shifted to Gurgaon from Meerut, and applied for a change of address in her voter ID card, but she says getting that done was quite an ordeal. “I had a hard time. The officials there would keep postponing it, saying kal aana, parson aana, abhi nahin banega, etc. The form kept lying there and I wondered when they were going to pick it up and work. I had to pull strings to get my voter ID! My PAN card didn’t take long, but the voter ID was tough, man.”

In fact, all that trouble and the resulting discussions with family and friends made her realise that the educated upper middle class often doesn’t vote. That’s why she started a community on the net to help others find the information they need and encourage them to vote. She says, “I’m happy that a corporate company took up my efforts and is doing it on a large scale. And TOI’s Lead India campaign is a fabulous endeavour. In fact, it should be done every year ’coz awakening people to the importance of being involved in the system will take more than a decade.”

While Chitrangda says she’s happy that so many celebs are going about campaigning, ask her if she’d do it and she hems and haws. “Well... I don’t know. I’d have to have immense faith in the candidate and his/her work.” But with a giggle, she adds, “I might do it for Rahul Gandhi. I don’t think that (stars campaigning) helps, though – people are smart, they know the star isn’t the one to be held accountable.”

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