LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Monday demanded that Aadhaar cards should be linked to voting and biometric identification should be adopted ahead of the 2027 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections to avoid rigging of the electoral process.
In an X post, Akhilesh Yadav stated, “Simple, straightforward demands regarding the election: Aadhaar cards should be linked to voting. Instead of paper or plastic, ‘metal cards’ should be made so they cannot be forged. Fingerprint or iris-based biometric identification should be adopted because no two people have the same biometrics, so the BJP will not be able to rig the vote.”
This comes amid Opposition parties’ ongoing agitation against the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), Gyanesh Kumar, and the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise. The INDIA bloc has demanded CEC Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation and a rollback of the SIR exercise.
Uttar Pradesh is set to hold Assembly elections next year, in which the Samajwadi Party eyes a comeback after two consecutive defeats in 2017 and 2022.
