According to the report, voters who have refused to share their numbers Aadhaar with the Election Commission (EC) may be asked to appear in front of the vote panel and explain the reasons.
The proposal concerns the voice panel plan to connect election photographic identification cards (EPIC) or voters ID with the numbers of Aadhaar of those who voluntarily provided them.
The survey panel said last week that it would soon start technical consultations on exercising with the Indian unique identification body (UIDAI). The Indian Express report now states that voters who are not willing to share their numbers Aadhaar with a poll panel could be convened by an election registration officer (ERO) to show the reasons for not providing this information.
ERO, usually a civil service or revenue officer, is responsible for updating and revising electoral roles or voters’ voters.
What is the AADHAAR-VOTER ID link plan?
Last week, when the survey panel announced its plans to connect EPIC or ID ID card of voters with Aadhaar, she said voting rights are provided to Indian citizens under Article 326 Indian Constitution, The Aadhaar card only determines the identity of a person.
A high -level meeting held between EC officials and the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Law, the IT and UIDAI ministry, discussed the proposal to ask any voter who does not provide a 12 -digit unique identification number to provide explanations in person before the ERO, according to Indian Express.
The proposal is likely to be part of the amended form 6b. In the existing system, form 6b, he was supposed to collect AADHAAR voters, lacks options for voters to delay the provision of Aadhaar. It only offers two options: either to provide Aadhaar or say: “I can’t provide my Aadhaar because I don’t have an Aadhaar number.”
According to the proposal, the 6b form will be improved to remove the last statement. Instead, it will have only one statement that the voter provides an alternative document and appears before the ERO at the date to explain why he does not share the details of Aadhaar.
This change, as soon as it is approved, must be notified by the Minister of Law. According to the Indian Express report, this change is likely to occur before the next elections to the Bihar assembly.
Questions were raised over the voter’s list integrity
The movement of the survey panel comes at a time when some opposition parties were concerned about the integrity of electoral roles. Mamata Banerjee-Strinamool Congress raised the problem of “duplicate” epic numbers.
Voters who do not provide Aadhaar numbers can be convened to explain their reasons.
Amendment 2021 of the 1951 People Act allowed Aadhaar to connect with the epic and the vote panel began to voluntarily collect Aadhaar numbers from voters. However, the vote panel has to connect two databases. The exercise was supposed to help detect duplicate registrations of voters. However, the connection of Aadhaar was not mandatory.
In September 2023, EC told the Supreme Court that 66,23 Crore voters voluntarily submitted its numbers Aadhaar. India currently has about 99.2 crore voters.
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