Recent controversies over alleged malpractices in the electoral rolls have renewed demands for the mandatory linkage of Aadhaar with Voter ID. What is your opinion? Give reasons in support of your answer.

Free and fair elections are sine-qua-non for representative democracy, which call for procedural fairness in electoral rolls and voting IDs. Need of linkage of Aadhaar with voter ID: (1) Increased cases of electoral malpractices, proxy voting and unauthorized voting case distorts electoral polls. (2) Demography changes due to refugees or migrants impact electoral outcome. (3) Delineation based on old census and fractures of continuity call for

linkage of Aadhaar with voter ID to reflect people's choice effectively. (4) Instances of fake votes, ghost ballot members necessitates other-vote link. However it is not need due to following reasons: (1) Unnecessary burden on administration. (2) Already strict mechanism to register voting. (3) Procedural machinery and fairness in election procedure is ensured by ECI, by filing squads, voter awareness SVEEP, social media regulator etc.

However, Aadhaar-Voter link will have advantage, while broadly reflecting demographic changes, informed electoral choice in the light of increasing fake votes, thus making fair and just electoral system for India.