Duplicate voters will be curbed by linking voter ID card with Aadhaar, former CEC told the benefits

New Delhi, 20/12 The government is working on a plan to link the Voter ID card of the voters of the country with their Aadhaar card. Its bill (Voter ID to Aadhaar Link) was already approved by the cabinet. Now this bill is to be introduced in the Lok Sabha on Monday. At the same time, former Chief Election Commissioner HS Brahma has spoken in this regard. He says that by linking Aadhaar with Voter ID card, the problem of a large number of fake voters in the country will be removed and the election database will be corrected. HS Brahma had first introduced the idea of ​​this scheme in 2012.

HS Brahma told News18 that he had proposed it in 2012 during his 2010-2015 tenure as the Chief Election Commissioner before becoming the Chief Election Commissioner. “This will ensure that there is no duplicate voter ID card and will help people when they want to shift to the city and cast their vote there,” he said. I don’t think the issue of privacy is such a big problem that we can’t solve it. Precautions can be taken.

The Election Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2021 is set to be introduced in Parliament on Monday after the Cabinet cleared it last week. It proposes to amend the existing law to allow linking of voter ID card with Aadhaar data to prevent multiple enrollments of the same person at different locations. Linking of voter ID card with Aadhaar is voluntary as the amendment bill says that if someone does not have an Aadhaar card, he will not be denied entry in the voter list.

Former Chief Election Commissioner Brahma said, “India has a problem of having a large number of fake voters. In 2012, I had proposed that we link Voter ID card with Aadhar card so that duplicate cards can be removed. There are many people whose names appear in the voter list at different places. Like I am from Assam, I can have card in Delhi, I can have card in Telangana (since I belong to Andhra cadre). That’s why for the purpose of fixing the voter ID card database, I had said that it should be linked with Aadhar card.