Voter Id Card

A huge racket of issuing fake Aadhaar and voter identity cards to illegal immigrants in Manipur has been busted, sources in the state government told NDTV.

Kompella Madhavi Latha, BJP's firebrand candidate from Hyderabad, is set to face a police case after a video showed her asking burqa-clad Muslim women at a polling booth to reveal their faces so that she can match them with photos on voter ID cards

Madhya Pradesh cyber police busted a nexus of making fake voter ID cards ahead of Lok Sabha elections and arrested one person in this regard from Bihar, an official said on Wednesday.

School students may soon automatically get their voter cards once they turn 18. Preparations are on to provide Voter IDs to Class 12 students once they become eligible to cast their ballot, said the Election Commission of India.

A pilot project to issue photo identity cards for voters was undertaken in the Calcutta (South West) Parliamentary constituency for a by-election in May 1960.

President Droupadi Murmu is set to receive a new voter identification card as the process to change her address to Delhi has begun, officials said on Friday.

The BJP on Wednesday demanded that the Central Bureau of Investigation or the National Investigation Agency probe the fake voter ID and Aadhaar card case since it pertains to national security.

Two persons were arrested in Surat in Gujarat for allegedly forging documents like Aadhaar and PAN cards as well as voter IDs using a website, in the process posing a serious threat to national security, a police official said on Monday.

Legal Cell of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) on Tuesday filed a complaint with the Election Commission (EC) demanding action against JDS candidate V Narayanaswamy of Gandhinagar constituency.

The initiative, to link Aadhaar Card with Voter ID Cards, has been introduced with the aim to establish the identity of electors and authenticate entries in the electoral roll and eliminate duplicate entries in the same or different constituencies.

The controversial law linking Aadhaar and Voter Identity Card has been challenged in the Supreme Court, with Congress's Randeep Singh Surjewala demanding that it be repealed. The top court will hear the case tomorrow.

Punjab's famous cojoined twins, Sohan Singh and Mohan Singh, fondly known as Sohna-Mohna, were on Tuesday handed two separate voter cards. They had turned 18 last year.

The linking of Aadhaar and voter ID cards will be "voluntary and not compulsory", Law Minister Kiren Rijiju told NDTV Tuesday, amid protests against the controversial Election Laws (Amendment) Bill and the manner in which it was passed.

Amid Opposition criticism of a bill to link Aadhaar with electoral rolls, sources in the government said the move would solve the "major problem" of multiple enrollment of the same person at different places and help in "cleaning" the voters list.

Four changes in the electoral law, the key one allowing linking of Aadhaar to the voter identity card, was passed in the Lok Sabha amid uproar today. The opposition demanded a review of the bill, arguing against the Aadhaar-voter I-card link.

A huge racket of issuing fake Aadhaar and voter identity cards to illegal immigrants in Manipur has been busted, sources in the state government told NDTV.

Kompella Madhavi Latha, BJP's firebrand candidate from Hyderabad, is set to face a police case after a video showed her asking burqa-clad Muslim women at a polling booth to reveal their faces so that she can match them with photos on voter ID cards

Madhya Pradesh cyber police busted a nexus of making fake voter ID cards ahead of Lok Sabha elections and arrested one person in this regard from Bihar, an official said on Wednesday.

School students may soon automatically get their voter cards once they turn 18. Preparations are on to provide Voter IDs to Class 12 students once they become eligible to cast their ballot, said the Election Commission of India.

A pilot project to issue photo identity cards for voters was undertaken in the Calcutta (South West) Parliamentary constituency for a by-election in May 1960.

President Droupadi Murmu is set to receive a new voter identification card as the process to change her address to Delhi has begun, officials said on Friday.

The BJP on Wednesday demanded that the Central Bureau of Investigation or the National Investigation Agency probe the fake voter ID and Aadhaar card case since it pertains to national security.

Two persons were arrested in Surat in Gujarat for allegedly forging documents like Aadhaar and PAN cards as well as voter IDs using a website, in the process posing a serious threat to national security, a police official said on Monday.

Legal Cell of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) on Tuesday filed a complaint with the Election Commission (EC) demanding action against JDS candidate V Narayanaswamy of Gandhinagar constituency.

The initiative, to link Aadhaar Card with Voter ID Cards, has been introduced with the aim to establish the identity of electors and authenticate entries in the electoral roll and eliminate duplicate entries in the same or different constituencies.

The controversial law linking Aadhaar and Voter Identity Card has been challenged in the Supreme Court, with Congress's Randeep Singh Surjewala demanding that it be repealed. The top court will hear the case tomorrow.

Punjab's famous cojoined twins, Sohan Singh and Mohan Singh, fondly known as Sohna-Mohna, were on Tuesday handed two separate voter cards. They had turned 18 last year.

The linking of Aadhaar and voter ID cards will be "voluntary and not compulsory", Law Minister Kiren Rijiju told NDTV Tuesday, amid protests against the controversial Election Laws (Amendment) Bill and the manner in which it was passed.

Amid Opposition criticism of a bill to link Aadhaar with electoral rolls, sources in the government said the move would solve the "major problem" of multiple enrollment of the same person at different places and help in "cleaning" the voters list.

Four changes in the electoral law, the key one allowing linking of Aadhaar to the voter identity card, was passed in the Lok Sabha amid uproar today. The opposition demanded a review of the bill, arguing against the Aadhaar-voter I-card link.