Why Nerpap stopped? Should it restart?

National Electoral Roll Purification and Authentication Programme (NERPAP) was one of the rarest program running successfully till the supreme court pulled the plug on it in Aug,11 2015 when it warned the central government against making aadhaar mandatory for social benefits.

In the drive launched sometime in march,2015 all Voter-IDs were to be linked with aadhaars by Aug,15. But due to the supreme court ruling over 34 Crore VoterID-Aadhaar links will have to be removed....(Read Here)

It is indeed a travesty of justice that getting to vote is considered a lucky event. Migrants and people on the move easily get excluded from voting. What is the solution for all of this?

????

An Ex- Chief Election Commissioner N. Goplaswamy has succintly put forth several ideas which if implemented will lead to higher voting turnouts and a greater say for the non-local population across the country (Read Here)

It has become ample clear that aadhaar solves many problems associated to not able to vote and also duplicate voting.

So the question really is this

SHOULD INDIAN PARLIAMENT AMEND THE CONSTITUTION TO MAKE IT MANDATORY FOR VOTERS TO POSSES AADHAAR CARD?

It is very clear that only Indian citizens should have the right to vote. For ensuring that let us take the first step of ensuring that only Indian Residents get to vote. The next would be to identify citizens among the population and weed out foreign origin people.

It is not easy to amend the constitution as it requires bipartisan support. Also people may raise the bogey of privacy to scuttle any plans of making aadhaar mandatory. What is the alternative before us under such circumstances?

Next question that comes then is

SHOULD INDIAN PARLIAMENT PASS A LAW TO GIVE STATUTORY PROTECTION TO NERPAP?

This is a more viable proposal under the given circumstances. Now that 1 billion people have aadhaar and it is anyhow one of the documents that can be used to vote why not link aadhaar with Voter-ID under a law passed by the parliament. The way in which NERPAP was stopped looked as though Election Commission was scared of the SC.

Let us make 2019 general elections the cleanest and most voted one.