Elections for the 18th Lok Sabha are going to be held in the country in the next few months. A few months ago, the Election Commission had started the campaign ‘My first vote for the country’ regarding first time voters. Its objective is to promote youth participation in elections. But do you know who were the first voters of independent India? Today we will tell you who were the first voters of independent India and in which state they lived.
country’s first voter
The first voter of the country was Shyam Saran Negi. Let us tell you that Shyam Saran Negi voted for the first time on 25 October 1951 and he became the first voter of independent India. After the country’s independence, the first general elections were held in India in February 1952. In which he cast the first vote.
Shyam Saran Negi
Shyam Saran Negi was born in July 1917 in Kalpa, Kinnaur. According to the information, he went to school at the age of 10, where he completed his education till class five. After this he decided to go to Rampur for his studies. It took him three days on foot to reach Rampur. He completed his studies till ninth grade in Rampur. But due to his old age he did not get admission in class 10th. After which Shyam Saran Negi worked as a forest guard in the Forest Department from 1940 to 1946. After this he went to the education department and became a teacher in Kalpa Lower Middle School.
How did independent India become the first voter?
Actually Kalpa is a part of tribal district. The voting process took place there even before snowfall. Shyam Saran Negi was the first to cast his vote in this election. Let us tell you that in February 1952, the first Lok Sabha Elections It was held, but due to heavy snowfall in Kinnaur, elections were held five months earlier in September 1951. At that time, Shyam Saran Negi was a teacher at Moorang School in Kinnaur and was on election duty. He had cast his vote in the morning and sought permission to go to duty. After this, he reached the polling place early in the morning and the polling duty party reached at 6:15. After this, on the request of Shyam Saran Negi, he was the first to get permission to vote. In this way Shyam Saran Negi became the first voter of independent India.
last vote
Let us tell you that Shyam Saran Negi died on 5 November 2022 at the age of 106. He cast his last vote for the Himachal Pradesh Assembly on November 2, 2022, two days before his death, from his home through postal ballot.
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