India’s first voter Shyam Saran Negi casts his vote

Date :20-May-2019

(L) 102-year old Shyam Saran Negi from Kalpa arrive to casts his vote (R) Tulki Devi, a 102-year-old

voter shows her finger marked with indelible ink at a polling booth on Sunday.

By Dharmendra Joshi:

SHIMLA

NOTWITHSTANDING his failing vision and aching knees, India’s “first” voter Shyam Saran Negi Sunday reached his polling booth in Himachal Pradesh’s Kinnaur district to exercise his franchise. The 102-year-old was given a warm welcome by election staff at the Kalpa booth in Mandi Lok Sabha constituency, which went to polls in the last and seventh phase of the general elections.

“A resident of Himachal Pradesh’s tribal district Kinnaur, Shyam Sharan Negi is India’s first voter and very important for the state election department,” Kinnaur District Election Officer Gopal Chand told PTI. Negi, a retired school teacher was born on July 1, 1917.