India's first voter Shyam Saran Negi, who died on Saturday at his home in Himachal Pradesh's Kalpa, had insisted he wanted to cast his vote at the polling station rather than exercising franchise through postal ballot.
Independent India's first voter, the 106-year-old Shyam Saran Negi died todayat his native place in Himachal Pradesh's Kalpa, days after he cast his last vote in the 14th Assembly elections of the state.
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar on Saturday left for Kalpa in Kinnaur district of Himachal Pradesh to meet the bereaved family of Shyam Saran Negi's, the "first voter of independent India" who passed away today at the age of 106.