103-year-old man casts vote for 32nd time since 1951 in Himachal's Kalpa

Shyam Saran Negi has voted in all 16 Lok Sabha elections; he has also voted in 13 Assembly and two territorial council elections

Hundred and three-year-old Shyam Saran Negi cast his vote yesterday for the 32nd time since 1951 when he had first exercised his franchise. And he cast his vote at the same polling booth at the village Kalpa in Kinnaur, Himachal Pradesh. Negi has voted in all 16 Lok Sabha elections; he has also voted in 13 Assembly and two territorial council elections. The local administration had made arrangements to ferry him from his home to the polling booth in a primary school nearby  and accorded him a hero's welcome when he arrived to cast his ballot.

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