127-year-old man casts vote in India

NEW DELHI, May 13 (Xinhua) -- A 127-year-old man, who voted in the
country's first general election in 1952, Wednesday became the oldest person in
the country to vote, said an Election Commission official.

"Bhadaru voted in a polling booth in Kasumpti under hill station Shimla's
parliamentary constituency, the capital of the northern Indian state of Himachal
Pradesh. He came on a horse to exercise his francaise. This is history in our
democracy," the official told the media.

Responding to media questions after voting, Bhadaru, who voted for India's
first modern time Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in 1952, expressed
dissatisfaction over the repeated inquires about his age.

"Why are you asking me again and again about my age? I am not getting
pension," he said.

Some 107 million voters in India were eligible to vote in the fifth and
last phase of the marathon month-long general elections.