India’s first voter Shyam Saran Negi died on Saturday morning at his residence in Himachal Pradesh’s Kinnaur. He was 106. On November 2, Negi had cast his vote for the state’s Assembly polls through postal ballot, the Election Commission said.

Expressing his condolences at a poll rally in Mandi district’s Sundarnagar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, “I learnt about the death of Shyam Saran Negi when I was leaving from New Delhi in the morning. The 106-year-old had voted more than 30 times in his life.”