BMM Letter to Indian Prime Minister on Aadhaar Card Compulsions

Date: 30^th May 2017

To,

Mr. Narendra Modi,

Prime Minister of India,

South Block, Raisina Hill.
New Delhi-110011.

Fax: +91-11-23019545,  23016857.

Subject: Revocation of Aadhaar Card Compulsions

Dear Mr. Narendra Modi,

It has come to our attention that you were totally against Aadhaar Card before your were elected Prime Minister of India and had even written to government authorities protesting concepts of Aadhaar Card promoted by then Manmohan Singh led Congress government. On 26.09.2013 few days after Supreme Court order against Aadhaar Card scheme you had also publicly attacked Aadhaar Card in BJP’s election campaign public meeting prior to the Lok Sabha elections. Videos of you speaking against Aadhaar are widely circulated on Whatsapp and now your government’s enforcement of the same is truly unfortunate.

We question as to why you have not scrapped Aaddhar Card even though you have completed three years in office as Prime Minister of India. Instead of cancellation your government has provided legal sanctions to the dangerous Aadhaar card by passing Aadhaar Act as Money Bill in the Lok Sabha stifling all the dissent and debate. Even this law does not make Aadhaar Card compulsory but voluntary. The trend to links up Aadhaar card to bank account and to PAN are dangerous.

Several government institutions of the Government like Provident Fund of India, Medical Collages, Banks, Public Distribution Services (ration), LPG distribution services are making Aadhaar card number compulsory. You have maintained before last Lok Sabha elections Aadhaar card is security threat to the nation and we agree with that. But why instead of shutting of Aadhaar card you are encouraging this even further? Why didn’t you shut down Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) set up by Congress Party in power? This only shows that your government is no different from Congress government in this matter and you have taken U-turn in your actions.

This is illegal, arbitrary and dangerous placing lives of People of India in tremendous risk.

We also wish to bring to your attention that Government of India has informed Supreme Court of India on May 03, 2017 that Aadhaar data has been leaked and this has been reported in various media. We share one report link http://www.news18.com/news/india/yes-aadhaar-data-were-leaked-centre-to-supreme-court-1390919.html for your perusal. Several crores of Aadhaar numbers are leaked according to the study conducted by Centre of Internet and Society based in Bangalore with links : http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/nformation-security-practices-of-aadhaar-or-lack-of-a-documentation-of-public-availability-of-aadhaar-numbers-with-sensitive-personal-fianacial-information-1

You are requested to reverse this decision and eliminate requirement of Aadhaar card in India not withstanding as to how much expenditure has already been made. Lives of Indian people are precious but Aadhaar card treats it as casual. We found your approach to Aadhaar card is also casual. Before the elections you opposed and then after elections you supported. There is no integrity in what you speak and what you do as proved from Aadhaar card stands you changed time and again.   

You may very well take the statement of Senior Lawyer Shyam Diwan on May 03, 2017 in Supreme Court very seriously as we have taken it too, “Civil rights movement was started by a woman who was made to sit at the back of a bus. Nobody asked her to make a big deal of this.”

Stick to what you spoke at the Public meetings before last Parliament Elections. Video of your speech on 26.09.2013 is getting circulated widely on Whatsapp and you must have seen it too.

Crores of citizens data is already leaked you are doing nothing about it nor UIDAI is doing anything about it. This is a reflection of complete irresponsibility in managing collected private data of residents in India. There is also information in circulation that corporate in India already posses Aadhaar data as it was collected without law. The Law that Lok Sabha passed is incapable of preventing leakage of citizens/residents data gathered from Aadhaar enrollment.

Awaiting your quick action to scrap entire edifice of Aadhaar Card and restore security of every Indian currently under threat from Aadhaar card.

Thanking you,

Yours sincerely,

       

        Sd/- 

Maggie Silveira,

President, Goa Unit

Aadhaar Card Scrapped by Supreme Court

BMM welcomes Order

Bharat Mukti Morcha (BMM) welcomes Supreme Court order of 23^rd September 2013 against Aadhaar Cards. Supreme Court ruling through its bench of Justices B. S. Chauhan and S. A. Bhobde held that Aadhaar Card cannot be mandatory for accessing public services and subsidies. 

Times of India of 24^th September 2013 reported about the Public Interest litigation (PIL) filed by the Petitioners, Justice Puttuswamy and another,  said they had ascertained that the Unique Identification Number Project proposed to give UID numbers not only to citizens but also to illegal migrants pursuant to a scheme framed by the government through an executive order of January 28, 2009. Referring to several judgments of the Supreme Court on right to privacy of a citizen guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution, the petitioners said, “Collecting biometric information as a condition precedent for the issue of Aadhaar card is an invasion of right to privacy of citizens and thereby this can only be done by a law enacted by Parliament and hence, beyond the executive power.”

Bharat Mutki Morcha has been agitating against Aadhaar cards for the past few years and this Supreme Court order is a welcome one. Indian government now ought to take immediate steps to delete the data collected from Aadhaar Cards and stop all the centers engaged in Aadhaar Card exercise.

In Goa too largely Aadhaar Card nuisance has been aggressively promoted by the State government. Gas cylinders too have been linked to Aadhaar card by HP, BP and Indane gas companies. Cooking gas is very basic need of human being. 

Now the Supreme Court has ordered the non-applicability of Aadhaar Card for the following:

1.       Registration of marriages

2.       Salaries for government employees

3.       Provident Fund

4.       Bank account

5.       Gas Cylinders

Aadhaar Card is not compulsory any more. All the Centres involved in preparing Aadhaar card must stop with immediate effect in Goa too. Now that the Aadhaar Card is chucked out Gas cylinders must be sold at Rs 418/- as it was before introduction of Aadhaar Card without any complications.

Blackmailing for Aadhaar card

17^th September 2013

  

To,

The Chief Secretary,

Goa Government,

Porvorim, Goa

Subject: Blackmailing for Aadhaar card

Sir,

This is to bring to your notice the statement in Rajya Sabha on 23^rd August 2013 made by Rajeev Shukla, Union Minister of Parliamentary Affairs that Aadhaar Cards are not mandatory to avail subsidy on cooking gas or on any other matter too. He also stated that in case any public sector companies are making Aadhaar cards compulsory then the respective companies will be corrected. His statement was reported in newspapers in Goa.

The law relating to Aadhaar card is blocked by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance citing that this entire project lacks clarity of direction, waste of public resources and grave threat to the national security. Any promotions of Aadhaar cards must cease with immediate effect and data collected is liable to be destroyed.

Several advertisements in newspapers from Public sector companies dealing with supply of cooking gas namely from Hindustan Petroleum, Bharat Petroleum and Indane are insisting that Aadhaar card is necessary for the purpose of availing subsidies on domestic cooking gas.

The Petroleum companies are indulging in the affairs that are threat to national security without law being passed in the Parliament and even after the Public Statement on this in the Rajya Sabha on 23^rd August 2013 and in Lok Sabha on 8^th May 2013 by the Parliamentary Affairs Minister Rajeev Shukla. Petroleum companies are acting in violation of Indian Parliament.

Even the press release from the Prime Minister’s Office dated 2^nd September 2013 did not deny that there the Parliament has not passed the law concerning Aadhaar Card enrollment.

Collectors in Goa too have been advocating for Aadhaar Cards and are giving certain deadlines for public in this regard.  Collectors are coming in media publicly and making what is illegal sounds so real to the people of Goa. South Goa Collector is an example in this regard who declared that Aadhaar cards and bank account are needed for procuring subsidies on cooking gas. Can Collector enforce Aadhaar number that has been blocked by Indian Parliament? In North Goa too the cooking gas subsidies has been linked up to the Aadhaar cards and bank account. This is an open revolt against Indian Parliament. The Collectors who enforce Aadhaar cards are liable to be terminated from their service for superseding the Parliament.

In an island of Vanxim the cost the cylinder as of 16^th September 2013 is Rs.970/-. Pamphlets are already being distributed in all the 12 talukas of Goa regarding the same.

You are therefore urged on priority basis to correct the Petroleum Companies insisting on Aadhaar and bank account. People of Goa must not be fooled as this Bill is not passed in the Parliament and this very awareness is already created through our pamphlet distribution.

You are also urged to direct the North Goa and South Collectors to retract from their emphasis on enforcing Aadhaar Cards to avail cooking gas subsidies.

Immediate action on this from you will be greatly appreciated.

Thanking you,

Yours sincerely

Sd/-

Maggie Silveira,

President

Bharat Mukti Mocha

Goa State Unit

Copies to:

1. The Collector, South Goa, Margao, Goa.
2. The Collector, North Goa, Panjim, Goa.
3. The Director, Department of Civil Supplies, Government of Goa, Panjim.
4. Regional Manager, Hindustan Petroleum Company.
5. Regional Manager, Bharat Petroleum Company.
6. Regional Manager, Indane Gas.
7. LPG dealers in Goa State. 
8. (Secretary) Planning, Government of Goa

Let’s march to destroy blackmailing through Aadhaar card

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is going against Parliament. The law (National Identification Authority Bill) for Aadhaar card is not passed in the Parliament and he being the Prime Minister of India is dictating terms against the Parliament of India. Aadhaar card is totally and completely illegal and people are made slaves in doing the Aadhaar Card. As a Prime Minister he has to work for the good of the people. Parliamentary standing committee on finance in fact has recommended the scrapping of the Aadhaar card project citing the reason of absence of direction and clarity of the project, waste of public resources and grave threat to national security.

Cylinders should be sold at the rate of Rs. 435/- as it was sold before and the public at large should not be troubled by the Prime Minister the way he is doing so. Aadhaar cards must be scrapped completely and totally giving due respect to the Parliament of India.

How can Prime Minister legitimize Aadhaar cards as he has done in his press release of September 2^nd 2013. The web link of the Prime Minister’s press release is as follows: 

http://pmindia.nic.in/content_print.php?nodeid=1685&nodetype=1

As a member of the house who earns about a Rs.4,000/- per month wherein he has to support his wife and children plus pay the electricity bill, telephone bill, water bill; how much money will he have left with him after all these payments? Plus he has to pay Rs.950/- for the gas cylinder. This is only going to chock up his throat and give him sleepless nights endlessly. It is disgusting and highly miserable act of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh even to think on such a misery by going against the Parliament of India. Such people are showing their true selves that they are really pursuing the agenda of the Eurasians Bamons who don’t care about the mulnivasis. 

Goa Chief Minister Bamon Manohar Parrikar made Rs.10/- less on Petrol after coming to Power as per promise in his manifesto in 2012. Immediately after that his government completely stopped Kerosene available at the fair price shop through the ration card and mulnivasis at large are suffering today as Kerosene is stopped by Parrikar.

The house maids, the sweepers, the peons, private sector working people are suffering tremendously on account of the Chief Minister bamon Parrikar and the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. With all this suffering in mind they also have to cater to their children’s education and future. This is only strangling and suffocating what this Bamon Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar is doing to Goa.  Only MLA’s and Ministers and Chief Minister and Prime Minister can afford to in this high cost life style. Others will have to struggle. The MLAs are paid Rs. One lakh five thousand monthly, MPs, Ministers, Prime Minister are getting even more. 

Bharat Mukti Morcha condemns Bamon Manohar Parrikar and the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for going against the Parliament of India. Scrapping of Aadhaar card pamphlets are distributed in all the 12 talukas of Goa. Total awareness is made about Aadhaar card scandal in all 12 talukas of Goa.

Let us march together to destroy the Aadhaar card!

Hindustan Petroleum Company is confronted on the issue of making Aadhaar card compulsory for the disbursement of subsidies to its customers. In a sms communication initiated by Cliffton de Souza of Velim, Salcete, Goa on 31^st August 2013, Hindustan Petroleum’s officer based in Kundaim, Ponda Mr.Arvind Singh has requested to ignore the reports appearing in Herald dated 24^th August 2013 that quoted Indian Parliamentary Affairs Minister Rajiv Sukla’s statement on the floor of the Rajya Sabha that there is no need of Aadhaar card to avail subsidy for LPG cylinders, and in case any Nationalized companies are doing so then they will be corrected. This point to be noted by all concerned mulnivasis. Its trap laid down for the mulnivasis by the Bamons. Be aware of Bamons. Don’s be fools. Hindustan petroleum instead of getting corrected has opted to forcefully ignore the decision of the Parliamentary Affairs Minister Rajiv Shukla.

This is indeed very serious matter. It involves issues of disobedience to the Parliament under which the Petroleum companies were created as legal entities few decades ago. Now the Hindustan Petroleum is in open revolt against the Indian Parliament. This is a direct revolt against the Indian democracy. This revolt signifies the collusion of Hindustan Petroleum Company with the agents of Bamon Raj and Manusmriti dedicated to destruction of Parliamentary democracy in India. If the decision of the Minister taken in Rajya Sabha is flouted by the company in this manner then this company is tearing apart the democracy. 

This is indeed very serious betrayal of the Indian Constitution that never placed any company above Indian Parliament. Ignoring the Minister’s decision and going about implementing Aadhaar cards even without Parliament passing of law for this purpose is serious transgression on the Indian democracy. Bharat Mukti Morcha does not tolerate such transgressions and condemns the Hindustan Petroleum Company totally for its revolt against Indian Parliament.

It is indeed very absurd decision on the part of Hindustan Petroleum Company to ignore Parliament. Is this what democracy means? Democracy means for the people, by the people and of the people.  This behavior of Hindustan Petroleum Company is totally against Mulnivasi people of India. Do register your protest against the decision of the Hindustan Petroleum Company to ignore the decision of the Indian Parliament. Do register your protest at various outlets of the company all over Goa and also register your written protests on the complaint book available with the various agencies of the Company. Remember Aadhaar cards in India are being enforced without any law. Hence they are illegal and anti-constitutional. Resist them. 

This National Identification Authority Bill with regard to Aadhaar card is not passed by the Indian Parliament. Only Bamon Digambar Kamat, earlier Chief minister of Goa was the first CM to sign MoU with another Bamon Nandan Nilekani, Chairperson, Unique Identification Authority of India. Present Chief minister bamon Manohar Parrikar said “since substantial money has been spent on the project I would like to derive maximum benefits from the unique number in such a manner that beneficiary oriented schemes are linked to UID. This would facilitate in plugging leakages and possible corrupt practices and help in effective implementation of the schemes. To begin with a few of the schemes like Dayanand Social Security Scheme, Ration cards in Public Distribution System etc will be linked to UID.”

Knowing fully that Parliament has not passed the law Goa CM Manohar Parrikar is deliberately and compulsorily forcing people into Aadhaar card trap. It is completely wrong to do so, we as individuals has freedom of privacy covered under Right to Life Article 21 of the Indian Constitution written by Dr.Babasaheb Ambedkar. Aadhaar card is infringement on our fundamental right to life.

Local daily Herald dated 1^st September 2013 published advertisement from Department of Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs with a heading “Kind attention: Ration Card holders of Bardez taluka”. The has the introduction as follows “The Department of Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs is in process of verification of digitized Ration Card Data for issue of Smart Cart Ration Card for Bardez Taluka on pilot basis.” The notice has nine points. Point number 2 states that on form to be filled “enter the details of Voter’s Card and Aadhaar/Enrolment ID number for each of the family member on the form.” Then point number six states that “Submit the self attested photocopies of the existing ration cards, Aadhaar (UID/EID), Voters ID (EPIC), wherever it is not available for any members submit details of available family members”.

These are the consequences of the Aadhaar card and there are no benefits at all. It is not compulsory. In fact it is illegal supported by bamon government of Goa. As individuals we have to be cautious and mindful and avoid such miserable ambitions and acts of the Bamons to be fulfilled. We should avoid. As a family member also we have get our acts together to scrap Aadhaar card and get collected private data such as figure prints and iris of eyes destroyed. There are many many individuals and families at large who have not done this Aadhaar card as they were aware much in advance of the dangerous consequences to follow as the private data collected can be shared with anyone and used against us without permission and even knowledge as there is no law regulating the privacy of data gathered under Aadhaar card. We can also lose our identity as we will be known by a mere mumber and this number an be manipulated against us mulnivasis.

Bharat Mukti Morcha calls upon one and all our mulnivasis not to do the Aadhaar card. And join the movement to scrap the Aadhaar card. For Salcete contact Cliffton (07350577146), Joseph (09370441231), For Bicholim contact Sanjay (09545585437), For Bardez contact Janardhan (09822178785) or Seby (09923336347), For Tiswadi contact Shamsunder (09823865022) or Maggie (09371990428), for Murmagoa contact Salim (09422452275), for Canacona contact Devidas (09373210686), for Pernem contact Shushant (09923651357), for Sanguem contact Rama (09403849347), for Quepem contact Motesh (09403849387), for Sattari contact  Mohan (09822011580), For Ponda contact Ramkrishna (09923456315).

Aadhaar Card has to be protested against. Find out the top officers of the Hindustan Petroleum Company and register your protest. The name and phone number of the higher officers are available with the local agent of the Company all over Goa. Together its march! Together its win! Aadhaar card is meant to be thrashed in the dust bin. This has been the opinion even of the Parliamentary standing committee on finance. It also pointed out that Aadhaar card is very dangerous to the national security as authentication contracts are awarded to foreign companies and they will decide whether we are citizens of India or not. Can there be anything more humiliating then this. Aadhaar card is complete destruction of mulnivasi identity to be replaced with mere number. It is better to destroy Aadhaar card in these circumstances. And we dare to take steps in this regard.