The Election Commission has decided to link the Voter ID card with the Aadhar card, people of the country will have to link their Voter ID card with the Aadhar card.

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New Delhi: The Election Commission has taken a big decision to curb fake voting and fake voter ID. The commission has decided to link the voter ID card to the Aadhaar card. Now the people of the country will have to link their voter ID to the Aadhaar card.

Big decision taken in a meeting with officials

According to the information, under the leadership of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, Election Commissioners Dr. Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Dr. Vivek Joshi held a meeting with the Union Home Secretary, Secretary of Legislative Department, Secretary of Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and CEO of UIDAI and technical experts of the Election Commission in the Election House today. It was decided in the meeting that the work of linking the voter ID card to the Aadhaar card will be done as per the provisions of Article 326 of the Constitution.

Experts will hold a meeting

According to the information, soon the experts of the Election Commission and UIDAI will start technical consultation on Aadhaar-voter card linkage. After this the process of linking can be started.

Election Commission issued this statement

The Election Commission said in a statement that according to Article 326 of the Constitution, the right to vote can be given only to a citizen of India, but Aadhaar only establishes the identity of a person. Therefore, it was decided that linking of Voter Photo Identity Card (EPIC) with Aadhaar will be done only in accordance with the provisions of Article 326 of the Constitution, Sections 23 (4), 23 (5) and 23 (6) of the Representation of the People Act, 1950 and in line with the Supreme Court judgment (of 2023). The Commission said that the law allows voluntary linking of voter lists with the Aadhaar database.

Congress’s statement came out

The Congress said on Tuesday that the Election Commission’s agreement to link voter ID cards with Aadhaar has confirmed its allegations about suspicious names in the voter list. The main opposition party also said that now the commission should also address the issue of addition and deletion of names by publicly sharing the entire voter list for the 2024 Maharashtra Assembly and Lok Sabha elections. The Election Commission said on Tuesday that linking voter ID cards with Aadhaar will be done as per the existing law and the directions of the Supreme Court.