Poll Body Chief To Attend Funeral Of Shyam Saran Negi, India's 1st Voter

Shyam Saran Negi had cast his first vote in the country's first general elections on October 23, 1951, in the Kalpa polling station.

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.

CEC Mr Kumar will attend Shyam Saran Negi Negi's last rites.

Negi had cast his vote through postal ballot on November 2 for next month's assembly polls in Himachal Pradesh.

Negi had cast his first vote in the country's first general elections on October 23, 1951, in the Kalpa polling station.