New Delhi, March 16 -- Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar has scheduled detailed discussions for March 18 with secretaries from the Union home ministry and the legislative department about linking Aadhaar identification numbers with voter ID cards, Election Commission officials said on Saturday.
Four senior officials told HT that EC had previously planned to make the Aadhaar-voter ID connection effectively mandatory, although in a subsequent 2023 submission to the Supreme Court, the panel said such linking was not mandatory. P2
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