In a development that could put the whole Aadhar Unique Identification project into question, for two days the Aadhar system failed to register the fingerprints of Maharashtra home minister RR Patil.
A few days back officials had come to meet Patil to take his biometric details. But the machine that was to register the prints, was not able to read them. After many attempts, the officials gave up and came back with a new machine on Wednesday. Mantralaya officials said that a number of tricks were tried including applying Vaseline on Patil's hands.
Officials told a concerned Patil that it was a common occurrence among people above 45 years of age. For the record after Patil inquired with the Aadhar officials whether there was any other politician who faced a similar problem, he was told that the machine also faced difficulties in reading Narendra Modi's fingerprints.
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