Indian elections 2019: Delhi's oldest voter casts his ballot

111-year old Bachan Singh went to the polling booth in a wheelchair

Last updated: May 12, 2019 | 12:43

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Bachan Singh ,111, the oldest voter in Delhi, leaves the polling booth after casting his vote for the sixth phase of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, west Delhi, Sunday, May 12, 2019.

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New Delhi: Delhi's oldest voter, 111-year old Bachan Singh, cast his vote at a polling booth in West Delhi's Tilak Nagar on Sunday. The centenarian was quoted just a day earlier by Indian news agency ANI saying that 'not a single vote should go waste.'

Singh arrived at the Sant Garh polling booth in a wheelchair and was greeted by his relatives and well-wishers, some of whom even offered him bouquets.

Delhi Election Commission officials said that Singh was the oldest voter in Delhi.

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