In 2009, I became extremely concerned with the concept of Unique Identity for various reasons. Connected with many like minded highly educated people who were all concerned.
On 18th May 2010, I started this Blog to capture anything and everything I came across on the topic. This blog with its million hits is a testament to my concerns about loss of privacy and fear of the ID being misused and possible Criminal activities it could lead to.
In 2017 the Supreme Court of India gave its verdict after one of the longest hearings on any issue. I did my bit and appealed to the Supreme Court Judges too through an On Line Petition.
In 2019 the Aadhaar Legislation has been revised and passed by the two houses of the Parliament of India making it Legal. I am no Legal Eagle so my Opinion carries no weight except with people opposed to the very concept.
In 2019, this Blog now just captures on a Daily Basis list of Articles Published on anything to do with Aadhaar as obtained from Daily Google Searches and nothing more. Cannot burn the midnight candle any longer.
"In Matters of Conscience, the Law of Majority has no place"- Mahatma Gandhi
Ram Krishnaswamy
Sydney, Australia.

Aadhaar

The UIDAI has taken two successive governments in India and the entire world for a ride. It identifies nothing. It is not unique. The entire UID data has never been verified and audited. The UID cannot be used for governance, financial databases or anything. It’s use is the biggest threat to national security since independence. – Anupam Saraph 2018

When I opposed Aadhaar in 2010 , I was called a BJP stooge. In 2016 I am still opposing Aadhaar for the same reasons and I am told I am a Congress die hard. No one wants to see why I oppose Aadhaar as it is too difficult. Plus Aadhaar is FREE so why not get one ? Ram Krishnaswamy

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.-Mahatma Gandhi

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.Mahatma Gandhi

“The invasion of privacy is of no consequence because privacy is not a fundamental right and has no meaning under Article 21. The right to privacy is not a guaranteed under the constitution, because privacy is not a fundamental right.” Article 21 of the Indian constitution refers to the right to life and liberty -Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi

“There is merit in the complaints. You are unwittingly allowing snooping, harassment and commercial exploitation. The information about an individual obtained by the UIDAI while issuing an Aadhaar card shall not be used for any other purpose, save as above, except as may be directed by a court for the purpose of criminal investigation.”-A three judge bench headed by Justice J Chelameswar said in an interim order.

Legal scholar Usha Ramanathan describes UID as an inverse of sunshine laws like the Right to Information. While the RTI makes the state transparent to the citizen, the UID does the inverse: it makes the citizen transparent to the state, she says.

Good idea gone bad
I have written earlier that UID/Aadhaar was a poorly designed, unreliable and expensive solution to the really good idea of providing national identification for over a billion Indians. My petition contends that UID in its current form violates the right to privacy of a citizen, guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution. This is because sensitive biometric and demographic information of citizens are with enrolment agencies, registrars and sub-registrars who have no legal liability for any misuse of this data. This petition has opened up the larger discussion on privacy rights for Indians. The current Article 21 interpretation by the Supreme Court was done decades ago, before the advent of internet and today’s technology and all the new privacy challenges that have arisen as a consequence.

Rajeev Chandrasekhar, MP Rajya Sabha

“What is Aadhaar? There is enormous confusion. That Aadhaar will identify people who are entitled for subsidy. No. Aadhaar doesn’t determine who is eligible and who isn’t,” Jairam Ramesh

But Aadhaar has been mythologised during the previous government by its creators into some technology super force that will transform governance in a miraculous manner. I even read an article recently that compared Aadhaar to some revolution and quoted a 1930s historian, Will Durant.Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Rajya Sabha MP

“I know you will say that it is not mandatory. But, it is compulsorily mandatorily voluntary,” Jairam Ramesh, Rajya Saba April 2017.

August 24, 2017: The nine-judge Constitution Bench rules that right to privacy is “intrinsic to life and liberty”and is inherently protected under the various fundamental freedoms enshrined under Part III of the Indian Constitution

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the World; indeed it's the only thing that ever has"

“Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.” -Edward Snowden

In the Supreme Court, Meenakshi Arora, one of the senior counsel in the case, compared it to living under a general, perpetual, nation-wide criminal warrant.

Had never thought of it that way, but living in the Aadhaar universe is like living in a prison. All of us are treated like criminals with barely any rights or recourse and gatekeepers have absolute power on you and your life.

Announcing the launch of the # BreakAadhaarChainscampaign, culminating with events in multiple cities on 12th Jan. This is the last opportunity to make your voice heard before the Supreme Court hearings start on 17th Jan 2018. In collaboration with @no2uidand@rozi_roti.

UIDAI's security seems to be founded on four time tested pillars of security idiocy

1) Denial

2) Issue fiats and point finger

3) Shoot messenger

4) Bury head in sand.

God Save India

Thursday, May 27, 2010

153 - Caste Census put on hold - By Palash Biswas

Caste census,OBC Headcount Put on Hold as RSS Wins the Brahaminical Battle and Earlier We Warned of UPA Strategic Betrayal


Home proposes caste count after Census!

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Palash Biswas


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Caste census,OBC Headcount Put on Hold as RSS Wins the Brahaminical Battle and Earlier We Warned of UPA Strategic Betrayal!


Home proposes caste count after Census!


Mind you, Bharat Mukti Morcha continues the Campaign for OBC Headcount in Full Swing as Government of India Incs Zionist Brahaminical defers the decision referring it to Group of Ministers to bypass Monsoon Session.


You may remember,as soon as the Prime Minister declared Caste Census in the Parliament and said that the Cabinet would endorse it, the Brahaminical Media, Intelligentsia and Civil Society launched intense hate campaign as I suggested only the Brahamins should be counted and be allowed the Foreigner Eurasians to have their share in accordance their percentage so that the IN FIGHT amongst the SIX thousand castes and converted minorities and aboriginal Communities which sustain the Manusmriti Rule, should end once for all!I was not joking.


It was quite clear in the National Press Conference of the Prime Minister to celebrate Completion of First Year of the back to back Second Tenure which turned to be a naked carnival amidst all round Disaster, as the PM denied Caste Census as reality. Even this Mornong , the TV Channels with screaming Headlines and constant Scrolling were indulged to control aboriginal indigenous minority Brains as they broke the news about SONIA GANDHI and Pranab Mukherjee favouring the decision.What a Joke! Sonia wants but the cabinet deferred!


With consensus eluding, the government on Wednesday decided to set up a Group of Ministers (GoM) to take a view on the controversial issue of whether there should be a caste-based census.


The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, discussed the issue over which various ministers are divided, official sources said.


The Cabinet then decided that a GoM should take a view on the issue, they said. The GoM is likely to be headed by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee.


The Cabinet, which first discussed the issue at length on May 4, has been divided on it.


While Law Minister Veerappa Moily and some others are pushing for caste-based census, Home Minister P Chidambaram has reservations on it.


The Home Ministry is understood to have opined that the present exercise of enumeration should go on and caste could be included later at the time of taking biometric samples.


The Union Home Ministry has said that the best time to go for a caste-based headcount, if there is a decision to that effect, would be after tabulation of Census figures and during the biometric capture phase when photographing, fingerprinting and iris mapping of citizens for the National Population Register (NPR) is done.


The ministry has given its view in an amended note that will be put up for discussion before the Cabinet on Wednesday. The ministry had vehemently opposed caste-based census in an earlier note. The new note also reflects the realisation, in the backdrop of the recent debate in Parliament on the issue, that there is a wider political constituency favouring it.


At his press conference on Monday, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had said that a decision on caste census would be taken by the Cabinet after taking note of the opinion expressed during the Parliament debate.


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