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AIMIM leader Owaisi opposes proposal to link Aadhaar with Voter ID

Last week, the Union Cabinet is believed to have cleared a bill on electoral reforms, allowing the Election Commission of India to link the Aadhaar with the Voter ID of individuals.

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AIMIM leader Owaisi opposes proposal to link Aadhaar with Voter ID

AIMIM Chief Asaduddin Owaisi. NE FILE PHOTO

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NEW DELHI, DEC 20

AIMIM leader and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi has opposed the government’s proposal to link the Aadhaar number with Voter ID. Owaisi in a notice sent to the Lok Sabha Secretariat said that linking the two documents violates the fundamental right to privacy. He said that the ‘House cannot interfere with the fundamental rights of the individual’.

Last week, the Union Cabinet is believed to have cleared a bill on electoral reforms, allowing the Election Commission of India to link the Aadhaar number with the Voter ID number. However, this will be on a voluntary basis, according to media reports. The bill — The Election Laws (Amendment), Bill 2021, will amend the Representation of the People Act.

https://t.co/Ya5NB9oVxi

— Asaduddin Owaisi (@asadowaisi) December 20, 2021

Opposed the linking of AADHAAR & electoral rolls while government passed it in the din of the house. The law was passed as a farce. I wasn’t even allowed any time to raise my objections, while the Chair allowed the Minister to make a detailed statement 1/npic.twitter.com/6uHpYqDqQJ

— Asaduddin Owaisi (@asadowaisi) December 20, 2021

“The Bill is outside the legislative competence of the House as it violates the limits on legislation set by the Supreme Court in its judgment (Puttaswamy vs Union of India). The linking of voter IDs and Aadhaar violates the fundamental right to privacy as defined by the Supreme Court in the judgment. This House is not competent to enact a law that violates a fundamental right of citizens,” he said.

Owaisi noted that the Bill proposes to make Aadhaar authentication mandatory, which is prohibited by the Supreme Court, which only limited it to welfare schemes.

“Linking Aadhaar and Voter IDs will lead to severe harms to the security and privacy of individuals. Previous such exercises in states have resulted in large-scale exclusions. It will also allow governments in power to suppress, disenfranchise, profile voters and discriminate between beneficiaries of government schemes. It will end up violating the principles of the secret ballot, universal adult franchise and free and fair elections,” he said.

Notably, linking Voter IDs with Aadhaar has been a long-pending proposal of the Election Commission. The ECI had in August 2019 proposed amendments, saying doing this will help in checking multiple enrollments of the same person at different places. The commission had in 2015 even launched the National Electoral Law Purification and Authentication Programme to link the Aadhaar with the Voter ID. However, the Supreme Court stalled the programme.

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