Amendments are necessary to make Aadhaar succeed: Rajeev Chandrasekhar

The determination to ensure government programmes and subsidies reaches the poorest of poor, farthest of the far is an article of faith of this government. Aadhaar and Jan Dhan Yojana (JDY) have become the core platforms to do this.

Of course, what is amusing is the Congress stand on this stronger and much more effective Aadhaar now. I don’t envy their situation — On one hand they want to claim ownership of it but on the other hand, they want to pretend to apostles of cause of privacy and oppose it. So as our PM said in this house a few days ago — when everything is looked at either from so high in the sky or with tinted political lens — then even the best of initiatives will look bad — be it EVMs or Aadhaar.