UID can be security risk, warns BJP
January 21st, 2012 - 6:31 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 21 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Saturday said inclusion of all residents of India in the Unique Identification number (UID) scheme would present a threat to the nation’s security by giving illegal migrants rights of citizens.
“In many parts of India, infiltrators from Bangladesh are there, there are people from Pakistan living in parts, they are not citizens of India, but terror, trouble and destablisation is fermented by them,” BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad said.
“The UID would include all residents, not citizens. So the overlapping between the national population register and UID, who will answer it?” he asked.
The BJP leader said the issue of national security cannot be different from development.
“Can the issue of development be diverse from national security. In many parts, specially in northeast, illegal immigrants have manipulated documents, like ration cards, voter I-cards, and got several rights. If we give them UID, they will say they are citizens of India,” he said.
Nearly 12 crore UID numbers have been issued so far.
- Centre launches unique identification number in Tripura - Dec 13, 2010
- Foreign diplomats get lesson on unique identification drive - Oct 20, 2011
- Manmohan Singh, Sonia Gandhi launch UID project in Maharashtra village - Sep 29, 2010
- 54 lakh Haryana families to get smart ration cards - May 28, 2011
- Cyber expert fears misuse of UID numbers - Aug 12, 2011
- Aadhaar to pilot financial, banking services in 50 districts - Apr 18, 2012
- Compromise reached on Unique ID project row (Lead) - Jan 27, 2012
- Each Unique ID number costs Rs.100: Nilekani - Dec 03, 2010
- Click to keep tabs on fair price shops - Jul 19, 2011
- One mn Indians to be enrolled per day for unique identity - Jun 23, 2011
- Karnataka extends Unique ID project to all districts - Feb 17, 2011
- Unique ID project set to meet target: Nilekani - Jun 17, 2011
- UID to benefit common people: Manmohan (Lead) - Sep 29, 2010
- Maharashtra villager gets first unique number card - Sep 29, 2010
- UIDAI to refresh data collection process in second phase - Feb 07, 2012
Tags: bangladesh, bharatiya janata party, bjp leader, citizens, crore, illegal immigrants, illegal migrants, inclusion, infiltrators, jan 21, national population, national security, New Delhi, pakistan, prasad, ration cards, ravi shankar, security risk, spokesperson, uid numbers