Akhilesh Yadav demands linking Aadhaar card for electoral reforms

According to a report by Aaj Tak, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav has put forward some important demands to bring reforms in the electoral process. Sharing a post on his social media handle X, he stated that some immediate steps are very necessary to make the entire voting process more transparent and secure. The foremost among his demands is to link the Aadhaar card with voting.

Under these demands, Akhilesh Yadav stated in his social media post on Monday that the cards used for voting in the country should be prepared in the form of metal cards instead of paper or plastic. Making this type of metal card will make it very difficult for any anti-social elements to forge such cards, and malpractices committed by creating fake identity cards can be curbed.

Apart from this, Akhilesh Yadav has strongly advocated for adopting a biometric identification method during elections. He clarified that to ensure the identity of the voter at the time of voting, the use of fingerprints or eye biometric scans should be made mandatory. Giving the reason for this, he stated that the biometric identity of any two persons is never the same, so this method can prove to be extremely reliable.

Akhilesh Yadav has also claimed in his post that if such an advanced system is implemented in the country, it will completely put a stop to bogus and fake voting. He further stated that by arranging such strict security, the opposition party, that is, the Bharatiya Janata Party, will not be able to get any kind of bogus or fake voting done. In this way, he has presented three main and direct points to improve the electoral system.

Akhilesh Yadav has been the Chief Minister of India's largest state, Uttar Pradesh, and is currently shouldering the responsibility as the national president of the Samajwadi Party. He remains continuously active as a prominent opposition face in Uttar Pradesh politics and keeps presenting his views on various political issues at the state and national levels.