Aadhar Bill being discussed in the Rajya Sabha. Finance minister Arun Jaitley tells the house: If you criticize me, it is your freedom of speech. If I criticize you it is my intolerance? Privacy is not an absolute right. We need identity to ensure target is delivered. Unique ID is essential for subsidies. What the information (UID) will be used for, what will be the purpose of the info, that was absent in the UPA legislation. The present law is completely different in that it borrows UPA's idea (UID), but the privacy law is much more tightened.


The government on March 11 had passed the Aadhaar bill in the Lok Sabha, despite vociferous protests from the opposition parties, who didnt want it passed as a 'money bill'.