It is ironic. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) may be baying for his blood after the Madras High Court rejected Union Home Minister P Chidambaram's plea in his Lok Sabha election case, but the minister is actually fighting a bitter battle within his own government to implement a plan that was, by all means, envisioned by the BJP.
The Bitter Battle
A large section of the media has reported that the home minister has complained to the prime minister about the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) (a part of the Planning Commission) not cooperating with the Registrar General of India (RGI) (under Home Ministry) in a letter. Both are collecting biometrics based data of people - UIDAI for issuing Aadhar numbers and RGI for its National Population Register (NPR).
A cabinet decision was taken in January where it was agreed that while UIDAI and NPR projects were different, each would use biometrics data collected by the other. Also, in case of discrepancies between UIDAI and NPR data, NPR would prevail.
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