Kinnaur: Shyam Saran Negi, the first voter of independent India passed away on Saturday at the age of 106 at his native place in Kinnaur. He had cast his postal ballot on November 2 for the upcoming Himachal Pradesh assembly elections.
Addressing an election rally in the Sundernagar assembly segment of Himachal Pradesh, Prime Minister invokes India s first voter to encourage people to cast vote in the coming assembly elections.
Shyam Saran Negi, an Indian school teacher in Kalpa, Himachal Pradesh, who cast the first vote in the 1951 General Elections in India, died of natural causes at his residence in Kalpa Saturday morning.
Shyam Saran Negi, believed to be India s first voter at 105 years of age, cast his vote on Wednesday in the Kinnaur assembly constituency in Himachal Pradesh.