KARNATAKA
BANGALORE, March 25, 2014
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
Recover the money spent on it from Nilekani: Ashok
Terming the Supreme Court’s order against making Aadhaar card mandatory for citizens to get any of the services as a “slap” in the face of the UPA government and the Unique Identification Authority of India’s (UIDAI) former chairman Nandan Nilekani, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday reiterated its demand for a CBI probe into the UIDAI affairs.
Addressing a press conference here, the former Deputy Chief Minister R. Ashok charged Mr. Nilekani with wasting Rs. 50,000 crore on the Aadhaar card project and demanded that the money be recovered from him.
Dropping hints that the BJP would use the Supreme Court order against Aadhaar to attack Mr. Nilekani, who is contesting on the Congress ticket against BJP leader Ananth Kumar from Bangalore South, Mr. Ashok said, “such a person who has squandered Rs. 50,000 crore is not eligible to contest from Bangalore.”
Alleging that Aadhaar cards had been given to illegal immigrants from Pakistan and Bangladesh, Mr. Ashok accused Mr. Nilkani of “posing a threat to the country’s security.”