97 year old Shyam Saran Negi and his wife, 91-year-old Hira
Mani, residents of Kalpa village of Kinnaur district which that falls in the
Mandi Lok Sabha constituency of Himachal Pradesh, show the victory sign.
Shyam Saran Negi has never missed voting in a single
election. He has been a part of Google’s Pledge To Vote Campaign 2014.
Retired as a junior basic teacher from a government school
in 1975, Negi was among the first to vote in independent India’s first Lok
Sabha battle in October 1951 in Chini constituency - later renamed Kinnaur.
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