Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad is always in the limelight due to his statements in the ruling Modi government. Regarding a special case, Ravi Shankar Prasad has said that the government is considering a proposal to link the voter list with the Aadhaar system to prevent bogus voting.
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On Wednesday, Ravi Shankar said that to prepare an error-free voter list and to prevent duplication of entries, the Election Commission has proposed to amend the Representation of People Act. It will be able to link the electoral data to the Aadhaar system. This proposal is under consideration.
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In August last year, the Commission had asked the government to give its statutory support to collect Aadhaar numbers of new applicants and existing voters to ban many entries in the voter list. The Election Commission had said that it would be necessary to amend the Representation of People Act to get Aadhaar numbers of new applicants and existing voters. In August 2015, the Supreme Court had stopped the project of linking the voter list with the Aadhaar number.
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