Luminary comedian Rehman Khan who is seen essaying Manu Patel's role in SAB TV' 'Papad Pol' was recently absent from the show for a while.

TellyBuzz tried to find out the reason and we have come up with the fact that the comedy guy was off to Bihar for the election campaign!

A source says, "Recently, Rehman was present to publicize Panchayat elections that happened in Bihar. He was chosen to publicize Congress party and the person who stood there for the election. He was called to do some comedy acts and let the people know about the candidate to get more and more votes for the party."

We contacted Rehman to know about the trip and he says, "Yes, I was absent from the show as I was invited for doing 'prachar' of a political party. There was no special reason to do such acts but it is a part and parcel of my career, so I have to do it. We all get paid for such things."

Is there any special reason for publicizing Congress Party? "No there are no such reasons as I have done the same work for other political parties too. So I was not biased for any particular party."

One secret has been revealed Rehman, that you celebrities get paid to do such publicity, so beware Janta!

Author and Reporter: Tejashree Bhopatkar