EC Linking Voter Cards with Aadhar Gets Congress Thumbs Up

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Congress Calls for Guardrails on Aadhar-Seeded Voters’ Cards

By TRH News Desk

New Delhi, March 18: The Congress on Tuesday welcomed the move of the Election Commission to seed voter cards with Aadhar. The Congress sought safeguards in the exercise.

“Acknowledging the Congress party’s charge of suspect voter lists, the Election Commission seeks to clean it up using Aadhaar,” an experts’ group in the Congress said in a statement.

Congress party welcomes a constructive solution with guardrails to not deny anyone the right to vote, it added. “The Election Commission of India (ECI) today has issued a statement confirming its intent to link EPIC Voter-ID numbers with Aadhaar numbers,” said the statement.

It also stated that “the move was decided in a meeting of the Election Commissioners with officers of the Government of India and technical experts”.

“It is a clear acknowledgement of the charge that the Congress party and the Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi have been making about the suspicious and dubious nature of our voter lists, as witnessed in the recent Maharashtra 2024 Vidhan Sabha elections,” added the experts’ group of the Congress.

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We continue to demand that the Election Commission make public the entire electoral photo rolls of Maharashtra 2024 Vidhan Sabha and Lok Sabha elections, it added.

“The main charge of the Congress party was that there was an abnormal increase in new voters enrolled in just five months between the Maharashtra Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabha elections, implying that either these were fake, duplicate or ghost voters,” said the statement.

Fake or duplicate voters is a problem of one person having multiple voter-ids, it added. “The Election Commission has acknowledged this problem of ‘one person many voter-ids’ raised by the Congress party, which can be eliminated through de-duplication using Aadhaar,” said the statement.

It also stated that the “Congress party supports constructive solutions that ensure clean voter lists, in line with Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar’s assertion made in 1949 that electoral rolls are most fundamental in a democracy and the independence of the elections process is a fundamental right”.

“But at the same time, it is important that no adult Indian citizen is denied the right to vote due to Aadhaar linkage,” said the statement. It also stated that the “Congress party urges the Election Commission to consult with all political parties and stakeholders, and assure them that there are sufficient guardrails to not deny the right to vote to even a single eligible citizen”.
The Congress also sought protection of the privacy of voters. It said that the privacy of no voters should be breached through this process.

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