{"id":919606,"date":"2025-04-05T07:52:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T02:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=919606"},"modified":"2025-04-05T08:11:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T02:41:47","slug":"tmc-opposes-epic-aadhaar-linking-efforts-cites-duplicacy-poor-biometrics-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/05\/tmc-opposes-epic-aadhaar-linking-efforts-cites-duplicacy-poor-biometrics-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"TMC opposes EPIC-Aadhaar linking efforts, cites duplicacy, poor biometrics concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trinamool Congress has objected to the Election Commission\u2019s efforts to link EPICs to the Aadhaar database, citing a 2022 CAG audit that highlighted duplicate Aadhaar and poor biometrics. <\/p>\n<p>Trinamool MPs marched from Parliament to Nirvachan Sadan with placards of duplicate Elector\u2019s Photo Identity Cards (EPICs) \u2014 an anomaly raised by Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee in February. The EC had admitted the error and promised to rectify it in three months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trinamool Congress has objected to the Election Commission\u2019s efforts to link EPICs to the Aadhaar database, citing a 2022 CAG audit that highlighted duplicate Aadhaar and poor biometrics. Trinamool MPs marched from Parliament to Nirvachan Sadan with placards of duplicate Elector\u2019s Photo Identity Cards (EPICs) \u2014 an anomaly raised by Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee in February. The EC had admitted the error and promised to rectify it in three months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-919606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}