{"id":340302,"date":"2022-11-05T04:34:18","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T10:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=340302"},"modified":"2022-11-05T04:34:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T10:04:18","slug":"pm-modi-condoles-death-of-indias-first-voter-says-his-outlook-towards-democracy-inspiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pm-modi-condoles-death-of-indias-first-voter-says-his-outlook-towards-democracy-inspiring\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi condoles death of India&#8217;s first voter, says his outlook towards democracy inspiring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sundernagar (HP):\u00a0 Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed condolences over the death of India&#8217;s first voter Shyam Saran Negi, who died aged 106 at his residence in Himachal Pradesh&#8217;s Kinnaur on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Two days ago, Negi had cast his vote for the state&#8217;s Assembly polls through postal ballot, the Election Commission said earlier in the day.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a poll rally here in Mandi district for the November 12 assembly polls in the hill state, Modi said, &#8220;When I started from Delhi in the morning, I got to know about the death of Shyam Saran Negi. The 106-year-old had voted more than 30 times in his life.&#8221; &#8220;Just a few days ago, Negi had cast his vote through postal ballot for the Himachal Pradesh polls. Even before his demise, he discharged his duty,&#8221; Modi said, adding Negi&#8217;s outlook towards democracy will inspire the country&#8217;s youth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sundernagar (HP):\u00a0 Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed condolences over the death of India&#8217;s first voter Shyam Saran Negi, who died aged 106 at his residence in Himachal Pradesh&#8217;s Kinnaur on Saturday morning. Two days ago, Negi had cast his vote for the state&#8217;s Assembly polls through postal ballot, the Election Commission said earlier in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":340303,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[15660,15520,15661,2132],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340304,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340302\/revisions\/340304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/340303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}