The Roundtable: Aadhaar — Privacy Vs Governance
Published on Apr 22, 2017
The government's recent decision to link Aadhaar card to the Pan card has raised a few valid questions on an individual's privacy. Should Aadhar be made mandatory for filing income tax returns? Is this violation of an individual's privacy?
Dr. Subramanian Swamy, one of the panellist on the roundtable mentioned that he doesn't have an Aadhaar card and said that he is not even planning to get one. Adding to this, one of the union minister, Ram Vilas Paswan has quoted that “If a person can eat only two prawns, why should he or she be served six? If a person eats two idlis, why serve four! It’s wastage of food and also money people pay for something that they don’t eat” All this has raised a sense of vigilantism in the state. Is government getting too much into our private lives?
Debating this on the roundtable we have Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Rajya Sabha MP, NDA; Subramanian Swamy, Rajya Sabha MP, BJP; Manish Tewari, National Spokesperson of Congress & Dinesh Trivedi, Rajya Sabha MP from TMC in conversation with our Senior Executive Editor, Priya Sahgal.
Dr. Subramanian Swamy, one of the panellist on the roundtable mentioned that he doesn't have an Aadhaar card and said that he is not even planning to get one. Adding to this, one of the union minister, Ram Vilas Paswan has quoted that “If a person can eat only two prawns, why should he or she be served six? If a person eats two idlis, why serve four! It’s wastage of food and also money people pay for something that they don’t eat” All this has raised a sense of vigilantism in the state. Is government getting too much into our private lives?
Debating this on the roundtable we have Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Rajya Sabha MP, NDA; Subramanian Swamy, Rajya Sabha MP, BJP; Manish Tewari, National Spokesperson of Congress & Dinesh Trivedi, Rajya Sabha MP from TMC in conversation with our Senior Executive Editor, Priya Sahgal.
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