Amendments are necessary to make Aadhaar succeed: Rajeev Chandrasekhar

The Narendra Modi government has recognised that new areas like this - legislation needs to keep evolving and hence these amendments

The determination to ensure government programmes and subsidies reaches the poorest of poor, farthest of the far is an article of faith of this government. Aadhaar and Jan Dhan Yojana (JDY) have become the core platforms to do this.

Of course, what is amusing is the Congress stand on this stronger and much more effective Aadhaar now. I don’t envy their situation — On one hand they want to claim ownership of it but on the other hand, they want to pretend to apostles of cause of privacy and oppose it. So as our PM said in this house a few