He voted for 1st Lok Sabha at 33; at 101, he’ll vote for 17th

Shimla | Sunday | 17th March, 2019

Summary:

Hamirpur follows, with 125 centurion voters. The other districts with centurion voters are Bilaspur (85), Shimla (75), Chamba (73), Sirmaur (53), Solan (41), Kullu (25) and Kinnaur (6). SHIMLA: The first voter of independent India, Shyam Saran Negi , is among 1,011 electors in Himachal Pradesh who are aged 100 and more. Lahaul-Spiti, the state’s most remote district, has only five voters in the over-100 age bracket. A resident of Kalpa town in Kinnaur , the retired schoolteacher cast the first vote in the first election in independent India, in 1951.In all, the state has about 51 lakh voters..