114-yr-old Fazilka woman keeps date, never skipped voting

Fazilka, February 20

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Perhaps the oldest woman of the region, 114-year-old Indro Bai cast her vote in the Jalalabad Assembly segment in Fazilka through postal ballot.

Born in Sialkot district of Pakistan, before the Partition, she has been living in Ghubaya village that falls under the Jalalabad segment. She exercised her right of franchise on February 14 through the postal ballot. According to her voter card and Aadhaar card, her date of birth is January 1, 1906 and according to the record of the state election commission, her age has been mentioned as 114.

She was married to one Inder Singh in Pakistan and after the Partition, the family migrated to the then Ferozepur district. Her husband had died few years ago. Indro Bai said she had continuously been casting her vote since the Independence.