The legislation linking Aadhaar and Voter Identification Card was challenged within the Supreme Court docket, with Congress’s Randeep Singh Surjewala demanding or not it’s repealed.
Demanding or not it’s repealed, the Congress chief in a petition referred to as the legislation unconstitutional and a violation of the precise to privateness and proper to equality.
The listening to of the case might be held on Monday. A bench comprising Justice DY Chandrachud will hear the problem.
Centre introduces Invoice to hyperlink voter ID, Aadhaar playing cards
Earlier in December of 2021, the centre had launched the Election Legal guidelines (Modification Invoice) 2021 to hyperlink voter id and Aadhaar playing cards, regardless of objections by the Opposition events over the transfer. Regulation Minister Kiren Rijiju, whereas rejecting the Opposition MPs’ statements that the Invoice would violate the elemental rights of residents, clarified that the Modification was solely meant to cease bogus and fraudulent voting.
The federal government additional stated that linking Aadhaar to electoral rolls would clear up the “main downside” of a number of enrollments of the identical individual at totally different locations and assist in “cleansing” the voter’s listing to an ideal extent.
Opposition Slams Govt
Following the introduction of the invoice, the 0pposition members slammed the federal government for speeding the Invoice via the parliamentary course of in a rush and demanded that or not it’s referred to a standing committee. “The Invoice is exterior the legislative competence of the Home because it violates the bounds on laws set by the Supreme Court docket in its judgment (Puttaswamy vs Union of India),” Congress chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury stated. His celebration colleague Manish Tiwari added, “The linking of voter IDs and Aadhaar violates the elemental proper to privateness as outlined by the Supreme Court docket within the judgment.”
They’ve additionally argued that permitting the Aadhaar-voter ID hyperlink might result in extra non-citizens voting within the nation.
Apart from the Congress, MK Stalin’s DMK, Sharad Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Social gathering, the Trinamool Congress, Shiv Sena, and the BSP have opposed the brand new legal guidelines.
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