New DelhiJuly 18, 2025 07:54 IST
first published: July 18, 2025 07:53 IST
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Some BJP members of the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament (PAC) have learned that they express concern on what they see as examples of non-citizens and use it to reach government benefits and get voter ID cards. In his view, it needs to see how people who obtained the base in the initial years can be filtered when the system was less rigid.
The chairmanship of Congress leader KC Venugopal, who is discussing the functioning of UIDAI (Unique Identification Authority of India), also met on Thursday.
The proceedings of the Parliamentary Committee are privileged and during the meetings, the details of the exchange between the members are not made public.
BJP leaders have raised this issue at one time when Election Commission is making a special intensive amendment (Sir) For the electoral role in Bihar, to ensure that unqualified persons did not get votes. 11 eligibility documents that do not present in the 2003 electoral rolls require to be submitted, it does not include Aadhaar, although the Supreme Court suggests that such documents are considered for head practice.
Some members, this has been learned, has indicated examples of non-citizens in Bihar, Jharkhand and Karnataka, which receive Aadhaar and use documents to obtain other documents such as voters ID cards and passports.
Members have underlined that state welfare measures are for citizens and not for foreigners. He said that the process of purchasing Aadhaar card was earlier less rigid, and people could enroll on the basis of an affidavit.
It turns out that members have expressed concern over illegal migrants, who claim rare resources for citizens, become voters and pose a threat to national security.
The CAG has flagged off 4.5 lakh examples of the Aadhaar Digeration.
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