Aadhaar card will be linked to voter ID, decision in the meeting of Election Commission and Ministry of Home

In the coming months, the campaign to link voter ID card with Aadhaar card will be intensified. According to the decisions of Article 326, RP Act, 1950 and Supreme Court to connect the Election Commission EPIC with Aadhaar number, proper action will be taken in constitutional scope.

Decision taken in meeting

In this connection, technical counseling between UIDAI and ECI experts will start soon. The Election Commission led the Election Commissioner Dr. Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Dr. Vivek Joshi under the leadership of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and held an important meeting with the Union Home Secretary, Secretary of Law, Secretary of Law, Ministry of Law, Secretary of Electronics and Information Technology and CEO of UIDAI and technical experts of Election Commission.

According to Article 326 of the Indian Constitution, the franchise can only be given to the citizen of India. While the Aadhaar card only establishes the identity of the person. Therefore, it was decided that the work of connecting EPIC to Aadhaar will be done only according to the provisions of Article 326 of the Constitution, Sections 23 (4), 23 (5) and 23 (6) of the Representation of the People Act, 1950 and according to the decision of the Supreme Court in No. 177/2023.

Consultation will start soon between technical experts

Technical counseling between technical experts of UIDAI and ECI is also going to start soon. To ensure fair and transparent elections in the country, the Election Commission has decided to find a permanent and scientific solution of allegations of disturbances in the voter list. This step is being taken to ensure the identity of those voters who are registered in more than one place as voters.

Political parties raised questions

This meeting has been held at a time when many political parties like Trinamool Congress, Shiv Sena (UBT), NCP and BJD have raised the issue of voters with the same EPIC number. The Commission has admitted that due to the poor alphanumeric series in some states, only the same number were re -released, but it cannot be called a fraud. Now the Commission has taken active steps to find a concrete solution to this issue.

‘No Indian should be deprived of their vote’

Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi said in a social media post, ‘Today the Election Commission has announced that it will connect Aadhaar with voter ID cards. Congress and India alliance parties have been continuously raising issues of voter lists, including unusually adding high numbers, unexpectedly delete and duplicate voter ID data.

He said, ‘Although Aadhaar duplicate voter ID will help in dealing with the problem, poor and marginalized people may have to face difficulties in the linking process. ECI should ensure that no Indian is deprived of their vote, and confidential concerns are also resolved.

Rahul said, “Now that the Election Commission has accepted this problem, I reiterate my previous demand that it should also address the issue of adding and removing the name by publicly sharing the entire voter list of Maharashtra 2024 assembly and Lok Sabha elections.”