Robin Pagnamenta Mumbai
Narendra Modi could reap teh political benefits of the national ID card scheme
Jim Bourg/ Reuters
Published at 12:01AM, March 23 2015
It must rank as one of the fastest U-turns in political history.
Until he swept to power in elections last May, Narendra Modi’s party had repeatedly lambasted India’s national ID card scheme as a colossal waste of taxpayers’ money.
“We will scrap it,” Ananth Kumar, one of the leaders of his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), stormed a year ago. “Lock, stock and barrel, it will be thrown into the dustbin.”