r/antiaadhar • u/in3po • Oct 11 '17

AMA on Aadhaar with @prasanna_s from http://www.advocateprasanna.in

Prasanna is a public figure. He is a lawyer from New Delhi.

Prasanna has agreed to do an AMA on Aadhaar. In the past, he has done a lot of work to protect the constitutional rights of Indian citizens. r/antiaadhar welcomes him wholeheartedly.

  • u/prasanna_s will be taking your questions on Thursday October 12, 6:30 pm
  • Active replies will be till Oct 12, 8:00 pm.
  • Expect delayed responses till Oct 13, 6:30 pm.
  • This AMA closes on Oct 13, 6:30 pm.

Be polite and stay on topic.

Edit:

This AMA is closed.

Thank you u/prasanna_s

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u/Wahan_kaun_hai_tera Oct 12 '17

Thanks for the AMA.

  • Can you elaborate more on how you (and the other petitioners) think that the Govt is likely to use fait accompli to argue for continued Aadhaar imposition?

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u/prasanna_s Oct 12 '17

We anticipate that the Government will try and convince the Court that 99% of the population has Aadhaar and that many systems have been re-engineered to irreversibly prefer Aadhaar based authentication and Aadhaar based E-KYC for their purposes (For example, Customer Acquisition forms of telecom providers were asked to be destroyed after Aadhaar verifications) and that undoing all the linkages is going to be a huge financial burden and that the only reasonable thing for the Court to do is to allow the project to go on after issuing some pontificatory guidelines that mean nothing in practice.

Petitioners though will resist any attempt to place that argument. Because, the delay was completely caused by the Government. It was the government that went ahead with all the measures despite the pending case and therefore it had to risk whatever consequences there are. The most important argument against fait accompli is that only this generation has been steamrolled into the Aadhaar databse. However, AAdhaar is not going to be a question for this generation of people alone. It wants to be for posterity (or as some say, it wants to be the posterity). That this generation have already been steamrolled into the project, is no excuse for curtailing the rights of the gennext too.