Not Aadhaar card, PAN card or Ration card will prove Indian citizenship;
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Not Aadhaar card, PAN card or Ration card will prove Indian citizenship; only these documents will, and they are:
Look at the list above and consider hiw likely that an ordinary citizen living somewhere in the villages of India would possess even one or two of them nor have any reason or incentive to apply for and possess any of them.
Why would a farmhand, labourer, coolie, journeyman, street vendor, day wage earner in India ever want to apply for a passport ?
Birth certificate : does the poor man on the street or in some remote village in Bihar — when a child is born in the family — even know where and how to apply for a birth certificate from some non-descript panchayat-located Registrar of Births and Death Office? Why would he journey a whole day just to go and fill forms he doesn’t understand to apply and stand in long queue to get a birth certificate?
Domicile Certificate : even I don’t know what the hell is the purpose of this silly document , who is the public authority to issue this , how to apply for it and what elaborate paperwork and rigmarole I have to suffer to provide to obtain this certificate !
Voter ID EPIC ! This is epic rubbing salt to wound indeed ! To ask me to produce this document while the Census Authorities are today making me run and scramble already from pillar to post to procure this document by furnishing them one or another of the other 3!
This situation is absurd and so surreal! It is classic Kafkaesque India Babudom, yes, and at its most formidable implacability!
For God’s sake , please make up your mind, your Majesty, the GoI ! Give me only a single simple-to-get, fool and tamper proof , one-time , permanent and lifetime document proving I’m a citizen of India and loyal son of her soil. And thereafter can you please let me live in peace ☮️, without let or hindrance from you! 🙏
Sudarshan Madabushi