ECI’s Aadhaar verification to ‘clear up’ voter lists an acceptance of prices: Congress

The EC on Tuesday mentioned linkage of voter playing cards with Aadhaar could be completed in line with the prevailing legislation and the Supreme Court docket’s instructions and added technical consultations between its consultants and UIDAI for the train would “start quickly”.

The EC held a gathering with the Union residence secretary, legislative secretary (within the legislation ministry), MeitY secretary and the UIDAI CEO on the problem of voter card-Aadhaar seeding.

The Congress had earlier termed as “duplicitous” the ballot authority’s rationalization on duplicate voter ID numbers and requested it to return clear on the problem.

Amid allegations of a cover-up over duplicate voter ID numbers, the ballot authority had mentioned it might handle the “decades-long” matter in three months.

The Congress had additionally accused the EC of being “complicit” in voter record “manipulation” and asserted that the get together was actively working to hunt a treatment by means of authorized, political and legislative means.

The group of senior leaders had questioned the EC’s silence on a number of voters having the identical ID and mentioned the get together wouldn’t let this situation fade as a result of grave hazard it posed to the nation’s electoral democracy.