Shyam Saran Negi is a retired school teacher from India. He is best known as the first and oldest electorate of independent India. He passed away on November 5, 2022, in Kalpa village, Himachal Pradesh; he was 105 years old.
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Shyam Saran Negi was born on 1 July 1917 in Kalpa, Kinnaur District, Himachal Pradesh (age 105 years; time of death). His zodiac sign is Cancer.
Negi started school at the age of 10. He studied in a government school in Kalpa till fifth standard and then moved to Rampur for further studies. When he reached the 10th standard, he was already 20 years old, but he was refused admission to the 10th standard because of his age. After completing his studies, Negi joined the forest department as a forest guard. He worked there for 6 years between 1940 and 1946. Shyam Saran later worked as a junior elementary teacher at the Junior High School in Kalpa and retired in 1975 after serving 23 years in the education department.
appearance
Eye color: black
Hair color: gray
family
Shyam Saran was born into a Hindu Rajput family.
Parents and siblings
His father’s name is Narayan Das.
wife and children
Shyam Saran’s wife Hira Mani passed away in 2014 at the age of 78. He has 3 sons and 5 daughters. His youngest son is Chander Prakash Negi. Negi lost his eldest son in 2002.
Shyam Saran Negi and his wife
dispute
In 2019, BJP worker Pushapraj used the word “Chowkidar” in place of Shyam’s name. In this regard, Negi lodged a complaint with Deputy Commissioner Kinnar, stating that he did not use any social media platform and did not authorize anyone other than the HP government and the Election Commission of India to use his name or photo for their purposes. political interests.
Complaint letter from Shyam Saran to Kinnaur DC
sign
Signature of Shyam Saran Negi
die
On November 5, 2022, Shyam Saran Negi breathed his last in his hometown Kalpa village in Himachal Pradesh, and the Himachal Pradesh government honored him with national honors Cremate him.
fact
- He likes to listen to the radio.
Shyam Saran Negi Listen to the Radio
- Negi follows a vegetarian diet.
- Negi lives in Kanang Saring, Kalpa, about 10,000 feet above sea level. This place is famous for the quality of its apples.
- Negi voted for the first time on October 25, 1951. The first elections were originally scheduled to be held in February 1952, but elections in Himachal Pradesh were held five months earlier as bad weather and heavy snowfall were expected in the region, which would create trouble for the elections. HP residents arrive at the polls. Shyam, a government teacher, was drafted for poll duty in the first election. Negi requested the polling party to allow him to cast his vote and then went to the polling station allotted to him. The official approved his request and he became the first elector of independent India.
- He was only 33 years old when he cast his first vote in the Lok Sabha elections in 1951. On May 19, 2019, he voted for the 17th time in the Himachal Pradesh general election.
- He voted in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections from the same school from which he retired after serving 23 years.
- Negi was just an ordinary voter until the Election Commission in 2007 ascertained his identity as the first elector in independent India.
- In 2010, the then Chief Election Commissioner of India, Navin Chawla, visited Shyam Saran’s village to pay homage to him as part of the Election Commission’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations.
Shyam Saran Negi and CEC Navin Chawla
- In 2014, Google India produced a video in which Shyam Saran narrated his experience of contesting his first election and explained to viewers the importance of voting. The video received more views than other videos launched from the same campaign and featured famous faces like Arjun Rampal, Diya Mirza, Virender Sehwag and Amitabh Bachchan.
- In 2016, Negi made a special appearance in the film “Sanam Re” starring Yami Gautam, Pulkit Samrat and Urvashi Rautela.
- During the Himachal Pradesh Assembly elections held on November 9, 2017, Shyam Saran received a warm welcome at the polling booth. The election commission arranged a pick-up and drop-off service for him and laid out a red carpet on his way to the polling station.
- Negi has been appointed by the Election Commission of India as the brand ambassador for the Systematic Voter Education and Electoral Participation (SVEEP) campaign.
- He has voted in almost every Lok Sabha, Assembly and Panchayat elections.
- He voted in the Himachal Pradesh Assembly elections on November 2, 2022, just three days before his death, and for the first time due to ill health, he voted through a postal ballot instead of through a polling station.
Categories: Biography
Source: HIS Education