New Delhi, March 16 -- Amid allegations of fudging of electoral rolls data, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar has convened a meeting of the Home Secretary, Legislative Department Secretary, and Chief Executive Officer of UIDAI on Tuesday to discuss the issue of linking voter identity cards with Aadhaar.
The meeting comes at a time when the Trinamool Congress has raised the issue of electors in West Bengal and other states having the same Electors Photo Identity Card (EPIC) number, leading the Election Commission of India (ECI) to acknowledge that some state chief electoral officers had used the wrong alpha-numeric series when issuing EPIC numbers.
Sources said CEC Gyanesh Kumar, Election Commissioner Sukhbir Singh Sandhu, an...