{"id":953892,"date":"2025-08-09T09:17:41","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T03:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=953892"},"modified":"2025-08-09T09:26:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T03:56:23","slug":"link-aadhaar-with-voter-id-to-end-fraud-kumaraswamy-tells-election-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/09\/link-aadhaar-with-voter-id-to-end-fraud-kumaraswamy-tells-election-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"Link Aadhaar with voter ID to end fraud: Kumaraswamy tells Election Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru: Decrying a \u201cflood of lies\u201d against the Election Commission, Union Minister H D Kumaraswamy on Friday called for linking Aadhaar with Electors Photo Identity Card (EPIC), which he said is a \u201cclear remedy\u201d to end voter fraud. <\/p>\n<p>Kumaraswamy, a two-time chief minister of Karnataka, represents the JD(S), which is the BJP\u2019s alliance partner. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cA flood of lies against the Election Commission is a calculated conspiracy to strangle democracy. A sinister attempt to poison the spirit of Amrit Kaal, driven by those seeking political mileage through baseless allegations against constitutional institutions,\u201d Kumaraswamy said, referring to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi\u2019s \u201cvote theft\u201d charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru: Decrying a \u201cflood of lies\u201d against the Election Commission, Union Minister H D Kumaraswamy on Friday called for linking Aadhaar with Electors Photo Identity Card (EPIC), which he said is a \u201cclear remedy\u201d to end voter fraud. Kumaraswamy, a two-time chief minister of Karnataka, represents the JD(S), which is the BJP\u2019s alliance partner. \u201cA flood of lies against the Election Commission is a calculated conspiracy to strangle democracy. A sinister attempt to poison the spirit of Amrit Kaal, driven by those seeking political mileage through baseless allegations against constitutional institutions,\u201d Kumaraswamy said, referring to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi\u2019s \u201cvote [&hellip;]<\/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":[20,44,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-953892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-it-2-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953892","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=953892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}