Rules on linking Aadhaar with the electoral rolls can be issued by the government soon, Chief Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra (CEC) has said, adding that sharing Aadhaar details will be voluntary for voters, but those not doing so will have to give "sufficient reasons".
Mr. Chandra, who demits office on Saturday evening, also said that the poll panel played a key role in intensifying the vaccination drive in the five States, where Assembly elections concluded in March this year, to ensure that voters and those involved in election duty were safe from the coronavirus.
In an interview with PTI, he said two major electoral reforms which took place in his tenure as the CEC are the provision of four dates in a year instead of one to enrol those turning 18 as voters and the linking of Aadhaar with electoral rolls to check duplicate entries in the voters' list.
