Voter ID cards may soon be linked to Aadhaar cards in the country for which the Election Commission will hold a meeting with the Union Home Secretary, Secretary of the Legislative Department and the CEO of UIDAI on March 18. This discussion on the long-standing issue of linking voter IDs to Aadhaar cards would be taking place at a time when there is a political debate on this, especially after the Trinamool Congress raised concerns over duplicate entries in voter IDs in West Bengal. The Election Commission has announced a plan to remove duplicate voter entries in the next three months.

It may be recalled that in December 2021, the Lok Sabha passed the Election Laws (Amendment) Bill, which recommended linking voter ID with Aadhaar. According to the Election Commission, so far 64 crore voters have linked their voter ID cards with Aadhaar, while there are a total of about 97 crore voters in the country.

The government has also said that the Aadhaar-voter card seeding exercise is process-driven and no target or timeline has been set for the proposed linking. Apart from this, the names of those who do not link their Aadhaar details with the voter list will not be deleted from the voter list. This step aims to remove fake names from the voter list and make it clean. For this, it was not necessary to link Aadhaar and voter card.
This will help avoid fake voting and........

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