A 12-digit National ID to tackle bogus voters and illegal immigration
A panacea for all the doubts and aspersions unleashed by the First Family of the Indian National Congress and its allies on EVMs (Electronic Voting Machines) and the SIR (Special Intensive Revision) of electoral rolls has been put forward by Organiser, the official organ of the RSS. If implemented, the project would ensure that all controversies on the SIR and EVMs are resolved once and for all, says Renjith Gopalakrishnan, who authored the Organiser article[1].
The project, titled the National Identity Register (NIR), will replace the cumbersome process associated with the SIR. The revision of the electoral roll has resulted in the Opposition parties alleging that they lost the 2024 Lok Sabha election and the subsequent Assembly elections because the names of crores of Congress workers were deleted from the voters’ list at the instance of Gyanesh Kumar, the Chief Election Commissioner. Rahul Gandhi, the scion of the Nehru-Gandhi clan, is going around the world claiming that the post of Indian Prime Minister is exclusively reserved for them and that the incumbent Prime Minister Narendra Modi is occupying it without any locus standi. That has been the style of the Nehru-Gandhi clan, members of which claim that the top jobs in the country are their exclusive domain and that no ordinary folk should aspire to those posts.
It was imperative for them to keep India in perpetual poverty and illiteracy. Whatever they provided the people at subsidised rates (ration rice, wheat and financial assistance) was labelled as alms and charity. The periods 1947 to 1977, 1980 to 1989, 1991 to 1996 and 2004 to 2014 saw development and growth stagnating in India because the First Family never wanted India to prosper beyond New Delhi. Poverty, illiteracy, and malnutrition were their recipes to ensure their continuation in power, as the poor Indians were never given a chance to learn what life was like in foreign countries.
The clan had their strategies too to create an exclusive vote bank. Illegal migration into India from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and those belonging to the Rohingya Muslim community was encouraged with élan by the Nehru-Gandhi clan members and their court jesters. Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, a former President, in his role as a minister in the State of Assam, had encouraged and promoted the influx of a large number of Muslims from the then East Pakistan (which became Bangladesh in 1971) into Assam with an eye to alter the religious demography of that state. He had his own ideas about Assam and East India. Once the region became a Muslim-majority area, Ahmed could claim secession from India and carve out an Islamic Republic incorporating the seven sisters of the Brahmaputra (as the North-Eastern States including Bengal and Assam were termed). Ahmed was the one who launched secessionism in Assam, and this was further taken up by the CPI(M) and the Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee. Many Bangladeshis (masquerading as Bengalis) are working all over India, and they illegally enter the country through the unguarded borders of Bengal, Assam and Tripura. The regimes of the CPI(M) and Mamata Banerjee offered the illegal immigrants Aadhaar Cards, Voter ID cards, and ration cards. I remember a Panchayat President in Ernakulam district telling me that all the illegal immigrants in the Panchayat carry Aadhaar Cards and Voter ID Cards which they sourced from Bengal.
It is to weed out the names of these illegal immigrants that the Election Commission launched the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls. This is a massive operation and has courted controversy, with foreign media like Al Jazeera, BBC and CNN alleging that the move was to disenfranchise the minority communities. These same media houses cried wolf when the Citizenship Amendment Act was enacted. All over the world, sovereign democratic countries have a national identity register, and the citizens of each country are issued a national identity card, which can act as their bread and butter. But India remains one of the countries where there is no system of a National Identity Register or Cards. Even a small country like Sri Lanka has made it mandatory that only persons with National Identity Cards can cast their votes.
Renjith Gopalakrishnan says that a 12-digit number allocated to each citizen of India would ensure that only Indian citizens get the benefits announced by the Government of India. Persons allotted a National Identity Card alone would be eligible to cast votes in the elections. The 12-digit number allocated to each citizen is a window to that person’s identity. His/ her name, place of birth, date of birth, permanent residence, educational qualifications, the company/ office in which he/ she is employed, address of present stay, bank account, details about health issues and whether he/ she is allergic to any medicine, criminal background, if any, are incorporated in these digits. The polling booth where he should cast his vote is also included in the digits. Any change in his job, place of stay and details of his spouse too could be incorporated in this national identity number which is engraved on the National Identity Card that resembles a bank credit card. The photograph and biometric details of the cardholder could be added to this card.
This is not a Utopian concept. Former Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani had suggested the necessity of having such a card system in India way back in 1999 itself[2]. But the project could not be taken up due to vehement resistance from, guess who? Ram Rajendra Babu, an IT professional based in the US, is of the view that it is time India introduced a National Identity Card for its citizens. He explained his own experience in the US, where his driving licence is linked to all relevant details. “The NIR system is not a one-off step. Since every day lakhs of people breathe their last and an equal number are born, it is a dynamic process. The only apprehension that could be posed by the Opposition parties is about the safety of the data. But this could be addressed by IT brains like Dr V Kamakoti, Director, IIT Madras, who is a globally reputed scientist, and Nandan Nilekani, who was in charge of the Aadhaar Card,” says Renjith.
Thanks to the Opposition parties, Aadhaar has become Niraadhaar, and voters who died in the 1970s and 1980s still cast their votes. Any doubt? Come to Kerala, where the Marxists have carved out a system by which they bring the dead back to life on polling dates! The National Identity Card and the National Identity Register are things which cannot be delayed any more. A person like N Chandrababu Naidu, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, has noted with concern the forced religious conversion and illegal immigration taking place in India. With Himanta Biswa Sarma and Suvendu Adhikari holding the fort in Assam and Bengal, it is almost certain that the unguarded borders in these states between India and Bangladesh will be plugged soon. For India to remain healthy, happy and prosperous, the NIR is a must and should be implemented at the earliest. There would not be any allegations from the Opposition about names getting deleted from the electoral rolls. Otherwise, the Congress and the Marxists would be tied up in fabricating fake cases against the election commissioners of India.
Citizenship is a valued possession. To be born in India itself is an honour and the citizenship should be held with reverence. It is not to be traded as a commodity like certain persons who, though they made India their home in the 1960s, waited till the 1980s to apply for citizenship. There is a divinity associated with Indian citizenship, and it cannot be considered something worthless. Just because somebody’s skin is fairer than that of Indians, why should we show reverence to them?
Note:
1. Text in Blue points to additional data on the topic.
2. The views expressed here are those of the author and do not necessarily represent or reflect the views of PGurus.
Reference:
[1] From SIR to National Identity Revolution: Why India needs a unified NIR system – Nov 6, 2026, Organiser
[2] PARLIAMENTARY CONSULTTIVE COMMITTEE OF MHA DISCUSSES MULTI-PURPOSE NATIONAL IDENTITY CARD PROJECT – Aug 21, 2003, PIB.Gov
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