Aadhaar will soon enter private sector too
The Supreme Court of India has given some outstanding judgments in the recent times with regard to Sabarimala and sexuality minority issues. But then the same court has left a lot of gaps in its judgment on Aadhaar petition. As soon as the Supreme Court says Aadhaar is not needed in some cases, people cannot assume they can do without Aadhaar forever. Those who wish to live without, must be prepared to face a fair amount of challenges in this country. Though SC has disallowed private companies from using Aadhar information or card, it is anybody's guess as to how successful this ruling would be. Will the private sector even be able to face the challenges in this context?
Niti Aayog faces a tricky time ahead because of this ruling. The committee was all set to create an action plan to use the Aadhaar and seeded data as basis to access private information. Finance minister Arun Jaitley has indicated that a bill would be tabled in the parliament, to allow use of Aadhaar in private sector. Payments Council of India is said to be against this and has even been insisting on this with finance and law ministers.
Court has said Aadhaar can be used for other purposes as a collateral document to get Passport, pan card, driver's license and other important documents. In cases of people submitting Aadhaar by choice as proof of address of id, the court has said it would have no issues. But the same court would not allow Aadhaar to be certified by non-governmental organisations. With the judgment, Air India, and other organisations such as Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd and LIC can accept Aadhaar. But their opponents such as Vistara, Reliance Jio or Kotak Life Insurance etc cannot use the same document as address proof. This helps the public sector organisations and would increase the financial and operational burden on private companies. Who'd bear the cost? obviously, the common person.
This increased burden, especially after the SC verdict, has become a cause of concern and private companies are already considering what they'd need to do in the future course to manage their costs and the market share along with keeping customers happy. For instance, Reliance Jio obtained the details of customers from their Aadhaar and wrote the best success story in telecom history of India. Costs have come down considerably for all private digital payment companies who obtaining required info from Aadhaar data.
This is the reason behind the pressure created by private sector to pass a bill to use Aadhaar for private use. Efforts are on to create conducive reasons to allow its use. Arun Jaitley has been on this job, anticipating the opposition parties would raise a lot of dust on this. Justice A K Sikri had said parts of sec 57 are unconstitutional since they empower private parties to ascertain the identity of persons. This is against the fundamental rights of a person. If a bill is passed as is, opposition party would be able to leverage this step as BJP's hobnobbing with the corporate sector, leading to confusion among poeple.Hence, the government is planning to have the corporate sector answer all the critics and then a bill would be passed to aid the use of data among private parties. So when one vests the power of using or submitting Aadhaar to individuals, and allow private companies to seek submission of this through their means, the government is escaping from its responsibilities and taking the backdoor entry into outing poeple's information on private sector. All the preparations are on. The final Aadhaar show for private sector will be done in a very consistent manner.
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LS polls: Its candidate gone to BJP, Congress urges voters to hit NOTA in Indore
Indore, May 2: The Congress, ejected from the contest after its Indore candidate joined the BJP, is appealing to voters to press the ‘None Of The Above’ (NOTA) option, a move slammed by the ruling party as negative tactics.
Akshay Kanti Bam, who had been pitted against BJP’s sitting MP Shankar Lalwani, shocked the grand old party on Monday, which was the last day for withdrawal of nomination, after he pulled out of the race and switched over to the saffron party.
The Indore constituency in Madhya Pradesh will go to polls on May 13 in the fourth phase of the general elections.
“Voters of Indore had delivered a huge victory to the BJP in the last municipal and assembly elections. In spite of it, the saffron party murdered democracy by unfairly luring Bam. Voters must give a befitting reply to BJP by hitting NOTA,” senior Congress leader Shobha Ojha told PTI on Thursday.
MP Congress chief Jitu Patwari had said on Tuesday that his party won't support any candidate, adding that voters had NOTA option to punish the BJP.
Congress leaders’ “instigation” of voters to use NOTA shows that the main opposition party is resorting to “negative tactics” in the festival of democracy, said Lalwani.
The BJP has been on a winning streak in MP’s commercial capital for the last 35 years.
Indore, the largest constituency in the state in terms of electorates, has 25.13 lakh eligible voters. BJP leaders have claimed that the party is aiming to win the Indore seat by a margin of 8 lakh votes this time.
During the 2019 elections, Lalwani defeated Congress’ Pankaj Sanghvi by 5.48 lakh votes. NOTA had polled 5,045 votes then.
After the withdrawal of nominations, 14 candidates, including nine independents, are left in the fray in Indore.
“The option of NOTA is not good for democracy. Voters must choose one of the candidates,” said Abhay Jain, who is contesting as an independent.
Jain heads the Janhit Party, formed by former RSS workers. The party is yet to be recognised by the Election Commission. Janhit Party is promising to “free Indore of drugs and money and muscle politics”.
