Linking of voter ID with Aadhaar under consideration, says govt

The government is considering linking of electoral data with Aadhaar system to weed out duplication of entries and make electoral roll error-free, Parliament was informed on Thursday.

To a question on whether government proposes to use Aadhaar as a Voter I-card or link Aadhaar with the voter list, Minister of Electronics and IT, Ravi Shankar Prasad in a reply in Rajya Sabha said, "As per information received from Legislative Department, a proposal to amend Representation of the People Act, 1951, to enable linking of Electoral data with Aadhaar system, is under consideration..."