{"id":15784,"date":"2022-02-14T15:47:22","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T10:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ferozepuronline.com\/?p=15784"},"modified":"2022-02-14T15:47:22","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T10:17:22","slug":"touching-100-year-life-on-feb-28-jagtar-singh-recollects-pre-partition-polling-experiences-of-lahore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ferozepuronline.com\/?p=15784","title":{"rendered":"Touching 100-year life on Feb. 28, Jagtar Singh recollects pre-partition polling experiences of Lahore"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Touching 100-year life on Feb. 28, Jagtar Singh recollects pre-partition polling experiences of Lahore<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have voted 75 times in different capacities: Jagtar Singh<\/strong><\/p>\n

Use right to voting franchise without any fear and greed, says veteran touching 100-year life<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ferozepur, February 14, 2022:<\/strong> Old-timer, Jagtar Singh of village Piranwala (Basti Bhan Singh) in Ferozepur, will be completing his life century, on February 28, and has also voted first time in Pakistan in 1945, recollecting his pre-partition polling experiences of Lahore.<\/p>\n

So far, he has used the right to franchise more than 75 years.\u00a0 He is a \u00a0motivational icon for the voters and physically and mentally fit at this age.<\/p>\n

Jagtar Singh states the daily exercise and positive thoughts in mind the reasons behind his fitness.\u00a0 He also regularly takes part in annual senior citizens athlete events in Ferozepur and has won number of medals of distinction, to his credit.<\/p>\n

Stating his first voting memory, he said, first time he voted in the village Kamaya in Lahore (Safedh Posh) \u2013 equal to the Panch of Panchayat.\u00a0 He said, after the partition of India and Pakistan, he has voted in Lok Sabha, Vidhan Sabha, District Parishad, Panchayat Samiti, Sarpanch, Panch besides in the Cooperative Societies and in certain bye-elections.<\/p>\n

Jagtar Singh said, I had voted only once in Pakistan as I did not have my vote before that.\u00a0 I have seen the \u2018chehal-pehal\u2019 outside the polling stations and I recollect there used to be a \u2018langar\u2019 of yellow colour sweet rice.<\/p>\n

Now when the Punjab Assembly elections are being held on February 20, Jagtar Singh made an appeal to the voters to must cast their vote without any fear and greed besides keeping away from drugs, to strengthen the democratic set-up of India and making the country drug free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Touching 100-year life on Feb. 28, Jagtar Singh recollects pre-partition polling experiences of Lahore I have voted 75 times in different capacities: Jagtar Singh Use right to voting franchise without any fear and greed, says veteran touching 100-year life Ferozepur, February 14, 2022: Old-timer, Jagtar Singh of village Piranwala (Basti Bhan Singh) in Ferozepur, will …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ferozepuronline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ferozepuronline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ferozepuronline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ferozepuronline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ferozepuronline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ferozepuronline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ferozepuronline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ferozepuronline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ferozepuronline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ferozepuronline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}