Why the UID project poses a danger to our sovereignty

Nandan Nilekani and his UID/Aadhaar project appear quite complicit in unconstitutional act of surrendering the country’s interest in favour of a global system led by ungovernable and undemocratic business enterprises not by democratic legislatures, says Gopal Krishna

"The cameras were all around. We've got you taped; you're in the play.

Here's your ID (ideal for identifying one and all.)

Invest your life in the memory bank; ours the interest and we thank you."

                                                                                   Jethro Tull: A Passion Play (1973)

Did anyone hear the chief of the world’s biggest database project take the oath of office for a cabinet minister?

What will be the consequences if Nandan Nilekani subverts the Constitution?

Four years have passed, Nilekani has refused to reveal whether or not he has himself enrolled for biometric unique identification (UID)/Aadhaar number. Can we expect him and his bosses Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Dr Manmohan Singh, Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, Pranab Mukherjee and cabinet ministers to enroll before his terms expires next year?  This information has been denied under the Right to Information Act.   

How will Nilekani and likes of him be penalised if they formally hand over the Central Identities Data Repository of UID/Aadhaar numbers to foreign governments and companies?

What will happen to him if he does the same in the name of awarding contracts to biometric technology companies for de-duplication of CIDR?

His counterpart in Pakistan did offer the entire record of the National Database and Registration Authority to the United States as has been revealed by the diplomatic cables leaked by Wikileaks.