Tag: India S First Voter

He will be cremated with full state honours, says Deputy Commissioner Abid Hussain Sadiq.

Shimla: Despite his failing vision and aching knees, India’s first voter Shyam Saran Negi reached his polling booth in Himachal Pradesh’s Kinnaur to exercise his franchise in the state’s panchayat elections, for which over 70 per cent turnout was recorded on Sunday. In the first round of the three-phase elections, 1,227 panchayats went to the […]