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Government Trusts Aadhaar on Welfare. It Needs to Rely on It to Make Voter Lists

The Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls, rolling out since June 2025, has deleted over 13 crore names and drawn criticism for its burden on the poor, elderly, migrants and women. On May 27, 2026, the Supreme Court upheld the exercise but held that citizenship determination belongs exclusively to the Ministry of Home Affairs under the Citizenship Act, not the Election Commission. The opinion piece uses this ruling…