Know about India's oldest voter- Shyam Saran Negi

New Delhi: Shyam Saran Negi can be called a true citizen of the country as he has never missed the opportunity to vote ever since he became a voter.Declared by the Election Commission as the oldest voter in the country, Negi is 97 year old and lives in Himalayan village of Kalpa in Kinnaur district, Himachal Pradesh.Ever since India started its democratic journey, from the 1951-52 general election, after gaining independence form the British Raj, Negi has been exercising his right to vote. From then one, he has never missed a single election and would be voting for the 16th time on 7th May, 2014. A retired teacher, Negi has become an icon for the voters of the country that a film has been made on him by Google. The film shows Negi's true life story and the beginning of polling in India. It says that independent India's first polling station was set up at Kalpa months before elections were held in the rest of India in February 1952. Before the roads got blocked in deep winter, people living in Negi's constituency voted several months ahead of the rest of India on 25 October 1951. The oldest voter is not in favour of the NOTA option recently introduced by the government as its gives the option of rejecting all the candidates. Shyam Saran Negi walks amidst the snow covered mountains, beating all odds to vote