{"id":36270,"date":"2018-11-02T11:37:43","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T06:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=36270"},"modified":"2018-11-02T11:37:43","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T06:07:43","slug":"aadhaar-not-totalitarian-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/aadhaar-not-totalitarian-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Aadhaar not \u2018totalitarian\u2019: Centre\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/centre-rejects-argument-that-aadhaar-is-totalitarian\/article19237767.ece\">Aadhaar not \u2018totalitarian\u2019: Centre<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>(Argument in the court over Aadhaar)<\/b> <b>Context<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Attorney-General K.K. Venugopal on Friday objected to arguments made by petitioners Advocate Shyam Divan that Aadhaar was driving India into a \u201cconcentration camp.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>The argument<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Supreme Court had pinpointed that constitutionality of the scheme for Aadhaar has to be decided \u201conce and for all\u201d and probably by a nine-judge Bench. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Senior advocate Shyam Divan, for the petitioners, argued that Aadhaar was reminiscent of 1984, a work by George Orwell about the totalitarian state where everybody and everything is watched by the \u2018Big Brother state.\u2019<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sparks flew at the hearing post advocate Diwan\u2019s statement.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Being critical of Children getting their thumb prints for enrolling for Aadhaar, Divan called India into becoming a concentration camp.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The new notifications even intend to withhold welfare benefits for those without Aadhaar.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Counter argument<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mr. Venugopal said Aadhaar had helped over 350 million poor.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The tragedy of it is all that money intended for public welfare schemes was swallowed up en route.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After Aadhaar, people are getting their money and benefits, Mr. Venugopal submitted.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He called Mr. Divan\u2019s remark on the country becoming a concentration camp as hyperbolic and rather unparliamentary.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mr. Venugopal, who had earlier agreed to team up with Mr. Divan to approach the CJI for setting up an appropriate Bench to decide the constitutionality of Aadhaar, threatened to withdraw.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aadhaar not \u2018totalitarian\u2019: Centre\u00a0 (Argument in the court over Aadhaar) Context Attorney-General K.K. Venugopal on Friday objected to arguments made by petitioners Advocate Shyam Divan that Aadhaar was driving India into a \u201cconcentration camp.\u201d The argument The Supreme Court had pinpointed that constitutionality of the scheme for Aadhaar has to be decided \u201conce and for&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/aadhaar-not-totalitarian-centre\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Aadhaar not \u2018totalitarian\u2019: Centre\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704914929},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}