Aadhar Controversy

Aadhaar number not mandatory for electoral roll authentication, poll panel tells Supreme Court

The central government had in June last year notified rules for linking Aadhaar numbers with electoral roll data.

Scroll Staff
· Sep 21, 2023 · 06:21 pm
Names of those who do not link Aadhaar with voter ID won’t be removed from voters list: Law minister

Kiren Rijiju said that the exercise is voluntary.

Scroll Staff
· Dec 16, 2022 · 07:42 pm
Explainer: Why the move to link Aadhaar to voter ID cards is so contentious

Earlier attempts to link the two saw about 55 lakh voters being deleted from the voter database.

Umang Poddar
· Dec 19, 2021 · 06:30 am

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What will it take for the government to accept court rulings that Aadhaar is not mandatory?

The Supreme Court has reiterated three times that is not mandatory for Indians to enrol for the programme and cannot be denied services if they lack an identity number.

Usha Ramanathan
· Aug 17, 2015 · 07:30 pm