Shyam Saran Negi, India's first voter passes away at 106; recently voted via postal ballot

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Shyam Saran Negi, India’s first voter passes away at 106; recently voted via postal ballot

New Delhi: Independent India’s first voter, the 106-year-old Shyam Saran Negi passed away Saturday morning at his native place in Himachal Pradesh’s Kalpa, days after he cast his last vote in the 14th Assembly elections of the state. Negi had cast his first vote in the independent country on October 23, 1951, in the Kalpa […]