Aadhaar and privacy

October 21, 2015 12:26 am | Updated 12:26 am IST

The authors have rightly said that democracy is irrelevant without right to privacy (“Aadhaar and the right to privacy,” Oct. 20). The Attorney General’s claim that poor should surrender their right to privacy for welfare schemes is naïve and arbitrary. In our Constitution all citizens have equal rights. The Supreme Court judgment to not make Aadhaar card mandatory for various programmes and schemes is very right. Interfering in the privacy of an individual is a threat to liberty which is the foremost principle of our Constitution.

Gagan Pratap Singhy,

Noida

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