Toll time for UPA; it can’t get worse

More than poll time, it’s toll time for the UPA as, one after another, several of its flagship schemes are coming unstuck. Top of the list, of course, is the Aadhaar one where, if the Supreme Court’s interim order is to get reflected in its final judgment, the project is dead in the water. It is true, as the FM said at his press conference on the subject several months ago, Aadhaar is not mandatory for availing benefits—this is what the SC also said in its interim order. But ultimately, if the government is to curb fake enrolments—at ration shops, in schools, at LPG outlets—the only way this can be done is to make Aadhaar mandatory.

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