In a controversial move, the BJP-led Assam Cabinet helmed by Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has declared that October 2025 onwards, no new adults will be issued an Aadhaar card. Individuals from the Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe, and tea garden workers are exempt from this rule for a year.
Coming as it is in the larger backdrop of evictions, detentions and deportations of Bengali-speaking Muslims in particular in Assam, the pronouncement is clearly political theatre, not law.
The Aadhaar Act of 2016 clearly leaves no room for such state-level diktats.
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