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Press Release: Resist linking Voter ID and Aadhaar!

September 26, 2021 

Three years ago today, on September 26, 2018, the Supreme Court of India delivered its final judgment in the cases challenging the constitutionality of the Aadhaar/UID programme. In its judgment, the Court circumscribed the Aadhaar project’s scope to a limited number of purposes, finding it constitutional only by reading it down. The Court permitted the use of Aadhaar authentication solely to welfare programmes (where Aadhaar continues to cause mass exclusions) and to link with PAN numbers for income tax (which continues to be extended). 

Today, more than 500 prominent citizens and organisations have written to the Election Commission of India, strongly opposing a fresh proposal to the Law Ministry to link voter ID cards (and the "EPIC" database) with Aadhaar, as violative of the Supreme Court's judgment and detrimental to our right to privacy and right to vote, and calling for it to be withdrawn. 

The statement, which calls this proposal a “dangerous idea that can disenfranchise people and fundamentally alter the structure of our democracy,” has been endorsed by 24 campaigns and organisations, including electoral reform group, Association for Democratic Reforms; civil rights groups from across the country including the Peoples’ Union of Civil Liberties, Mazdoor Kisaan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS), People’s Union for Democratic Rights, and the National Alliance of Peoples’ Movement (NAPM) Jharkhand; and digital rights groups such as Rethink Aadhaar, Article 21 Trust, Internet Freedom Foundation, the Bachao Project, and the Free Software Movement of India. It has also been signed by 480 prominent individuals, including former civil servants, journalists, lawyers, social activists, researchers, and students. 

The Election Commission has claimed that this will help clean up voter rolls, and that any linkage will be “voluntary”. As previous representations have noted, including a recent one made by the Constitutional Conduct Group, the proposal raises concerns of mass disenfranchisement, increased voter fraud, given the large number of documented discrepancies in the Aadhaar database, and of violating citizens’ right to privacy by enabling voter profiling through the linkage of datasets. 

The right to vote cannot be imperilled by irresponsibly linking databases and using an opaque algorithm to “verify” identities. Technological solutions cannot replace responsible administration. Timely door-to-door verification of voters remains the most effective method of updating electoral rolls and ensuring accuracy of voter data.

  • Jagdeep Chhokar, former Professor and Dean of IIM, Ahmedabad, and a founding member of the Association of Democratic Reforms, said, “The insistence of the Election Commission on linking the voter ID data with Aadhaar is quite surprising, because, in the past, at least two former Chief Election Commissioners have cautioned against this linkage. The UIDAI seems to be pressuring the Election Commission for this linkage, seemingly to gain legitimacy for the Aadhaar scheme. It seems finally the then-incumbent Chief Election Commissioner caved in and agreed to do this. This was stopped by the Supreme Court in 2015 as soon as it came to the attention of the Supreme Court. Now again, the Election Commission, in collaboration with the Law Ministry seems to be trying to circumvent the Supreme Court’s directions, which is inappropriate and not acceptable. It is hoped that the Supreme Court will not take kindly to this attempt to circumvent its instructions, by a sleight of hand, or a play on words.”

  • Reetika Khera, development economist and Associate Professor at IIT, Delhi, and expert on the impact of technology on welfare pointed out: “Remember that during UPA-2, Aadhaar was peddled as inclusive and transformational for welfare programmes. This was done on the basis of a claim, unsubstantiated at the time and proven false later, that the ration, and NREGA databases were infested with ghosts and duplicates. The same is being repeated now. Where Aadhaar has been forcibly integrated (e.g., in the PDS, NREGA, social security pensions, scholarships, etc.), people struggle to retain or regain access to entitlements. Technocratic unaccountability has been added to bureaucratic red tape, spending money on rectifying demographic errors in the Aadhaar database. They have fallen victim to fraud, and in extreme cases, outright excluded from their legal entitlements. The same issues - fraud, corruption, exclusion - will crop up if Aadhaar is allowed in the voting process in any manner.”

  • Maansi Verma, of Article 21 Trust said: “The Election Commission’s proposal to link Aadhaar and voter IDs violates the Supreme Court’s judgement, and is detrimental to our right to privacy, and our right to vote."

READ THE FULL STATEMENT AND LIST OF SIGNATORIES BELOW:

Resist linking Voter ID and Aadhaar!

The Election Commission of India has moved a proposal to the Law Ministry to link voter ID cards (and the "EPIC" database) with Aadhaar. This is a dangerous idea which can fundamentally alter the structure of our democracy. 

Rethink Aadhaar joins almost 500 prominent individuals, including former civil servants, journalists, social activists, researchers and students to strongly oppose this proposal, and call on the Election Commission of India to withdraw its plans. The signatories to the statement include electoral reform group, Association for Democratic Reforms; civil rights groups from across the country such as the Peoples’ Union of Civil Liberties, MKSS, Adivasi Women’s Network, Chetna Andolan, and NAPM Jharkhand; and digital rights groups including Rethink Aadhaar, Article 21 Trust, the Internet Freedom Foundation, the Bachao Project, and the Free Software Movement of India. 

Linking Voter ID and Aadhaar is an ill-thought, illogical, and unnecessary move which could undermine our electoral democracy, and impact voters’ trust in the electoral system. Indians’ right to vote cannot be imperilled by irresponsibly linking databases and using an opaque algorithm to “verify” identities. Technological solutions cannot replace responsible administration. Timely door-to-door verification of voters remains the most effective method of updating electoral rolls and ensuring accuracy of voter data.

The Election Commission has claimed that this will help clean up voter rolls, and that any linkage will be “voluntary”. As we noted in our earlier representation, and as the Constitutional Conduct Group has recently noted, we are deeply concerned that this will almost certainly lead to mass disenfranchisement, could increase voter fraud, given the mass discrepancies in the Aadhaar database, and could violate people’s right to privacy by enabling voter profiling through the linkage of data sets. This proposal would violate the judgment of the Supreme Court of India in Justice K.S. Puttaswamy (retd.) & Anr. v. Union Of India (Aadhaar judgment) which limited the use of Aadhaar authentication solely to welfare programmes and to link with PAN numbers for the purposes of income tax. Any proposal to link the UID with Voter IDs must be rejected. 

We are concerned about the following harms from such a proposal

First, Aadhaar is not proof of the right to vote. Aadhaar is not, and was never meant to serve as proof of citizenship, which is why Aadhaar numbers were issued to all residents and not citizens. Under the Representation of Peoples’ Act, only citizens who are resident in India have the right to vote. Linking the two is senseless, and would be without any basis - in addition to being a colossal waste of public funds. Deletion of voters based on whether their records in the EPIC database corresponds to Aadhaar records has no legal basis. 

Second, such a proposal will almost certainly cause mass disenfranchisement. This is not the first time that the government has tried to link Voter ID and Aadhaar to “purify” the electoral rolls. In 2015, the Central government introduced the National Election Roll Purification and Authentication Programme (NERPAP), and during the Aadhaar challenge, the Supreme Court passed an interim order on August 11th 2015, asking the ECI to suspend Aadhaar voter linkage. As this was never permitted by the Supreme Court in its final judgement and order, proceeding with this would be in violation of the Supreme Court’s judgement. Despite this, there was rampant misuse of Aadhaar data. In 2018, the chief electoral  officer of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh linked Aadhaar data with voter identity cards. In 2018, during the Telangana Assembly Election, people found out that at least 55 lakh voters had been arbitrarily disenfranchised. It was only after public outrage around these arbitrarily deletions, that the government rolled this back

Previous attempts to use Aadhaar to “clean-up” databases of other government registries, like MGNREGA and PDS, have resulted in mass disenfranchisement, and thousands of citizens have been arbitrarily deleted from systems without any notice. For example, a study from Jharkhand found that 90% of ration cards cancelled as “bogus” during Aadhaar linking were real. In 2018, even the CEO of UIDAI admitted that authentication failure for government services was as high as 12% - this translates into millions of affected persons. A recent J-PAL study in Jharkhand also found that Aadhaar based verification “either did not reduce errors of inclusion or leakage or did so at the cost of increased exclusion error”, with a high error rate of between 22% and 34% of reduced disbursals. Once lost, Aadhaar has been found to be almost impossible to retrieve; whereas for voter IDs there are simpler and more well defined ways to replace a misplaced voter ID card. 

Third, such a proposal is more likely to increase voter fraud. Linking Aadhaar would dilute the sanctity of the Voter ID database. As we pointed out in 2019, self-reported errors in Aadhaar data are reportedly one-and-one-half times higher than errors in the electoral database. The assumption behind the proposal to link the two databases is that the authenticity of people’s records in the Aadhaar database will be used to determine the authenticity of a record in the Voter ID/ EPIC database. However, given widespread data quality issues in the Aadhaar database, this  exercise would diminish the sanctity of records in the Voter ID database. Data quality issues in the Aadhaar database – a result of inadequate enrolment practices and lack of effective correction mechanisms – have been extensively documented - including fake entries and incorrect details. The UIDAI has itself admitted this, before various courts, and multiple Courts have refused to accept Aadhaar as proof of birth, or of identification. More recent research has also shown that Aadhaar-PAN linking has introduced fraudulent entries into the system.

Fourth, Biometric authentication for voting must not become a requirement. There are numerous reports of starvation deaths across states due to a lack of Aadhaar linkage, biometric failures, absence of adequate infrastructure and lack of adequate grievance redressal mechanisms in UIDAI’s implementation which has been painstakingly exposed by the Right to Food campaign. Fingerprints don't work for many people, especially those who work with their hands and older persons, and facial authentication is inaccurate and error-prone. The UIDAI has sought to circumvent the inaccuracy and issues in biometric authentication through an ill-conceived "nominee system", and OTPs in the case of welfare programs. How will this work in the case of voting? Will we have to send family members to vote instead, if our fingerprints don’t work? It’s also pertinent to mention that election booths are sometimes set up in remote locations, where voting has to be processed manually. Even EVMs are not connected to an internet connection, to prevent any kind of tampering. In such locations, how will biometric verification work in absence of the internet? 

Fifth, linking these two databases would be an attack on the right to privacy, and scope for misuse. We have serious concerns that such a proposal would violate our constitutional and fundamental right to privacy, and the secrecy of the vote. India currently has no data protection law, and the current personal data protection bill has wide exceptions for the government. Any attempts to link Aadhaar to the voter IDs, would lead to demographic information which has been linked to Aadhaar, being linked to the voter database. This creates the possibilities for disenfranchisement based on identity, of increased surveillance, and targeted advertisements and commercial exploitation of private sensitive data. In 2019, the Cambridge Analytica scandal demonstrated the disastrous impact that deep and invasive voter profiling had on individuals and on democracies. We have seen this in India: most recently, the Madras HC has asked the Election Commission to look into allegations against the Bharatiya Janata Party that it was illegally using Aadhaar data of voters in Puducherry for making political gains in the Assembly elections. In 2019, an investigation revealed that data could have been taken from the UID database in order to delete voter names in Andhra Pradesh - names were taken from the voter lists. This could be particularly harmful against minorities - a 2018 report found that 20% of Muslim adults were missing from electoral lists in Karnataka. We have learnt from other countries how a single form of identification for voting, leads to greater disenfranchisement. In some cases, onerous identity requirements are used to block disenfranchised persons from voting.

Finally, we cannot trust the ECI’s promise of “voluntariness”. The ECI’s claim that this would be based on "voluntariness". This is a grossly inadequate safeguard. We have seen how throughout the Aadhaar project “voluntary” on paper translates to a coercive mechanism in practice; and how this changes with time and in practice.

Any proposal to link the UID with Voter IDs must be rejected.

I. Organisations 

  1. Adivasi Women's Network

  2. Association for Democratic Reforms  

  3. Article 21 Trust 

  4. The Bachchao Project

  5. BlockSurvey, Inc. 

  6. Center for Women and Children Solidarity Network 

  7. Forum Against Oppression of Women 

  8. Forum for Electoral Integrity 

  9. Free Software Movement of India 

  10. Honavar Foundation 

  11. Internet Freedom Foundation 

  12. J&K RTI Movement 

  13. Maadhyam 

  14. Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS) 

  15. NAPM, Jharkhand 

  16. National Platform for the Rights of the Disalbed 17. Oddjoint Art 

  17. OpenSpace 

  18. People's Union for Civil Liberties 

  19. People's Union for Civil Liberties, Karnataka 

  20. People's Union for Civil Liberties, Maharashtra 

  21. People's Union for Civil Liberties, Rajasthan

  22. People’s Union for Democratic Rights (signed by Radhika Chitkara, Vikas Kumar, Secretaries)

  23. Rethink Aadhaar 

  24. Socialist Party (India) Telangana 

Individuals 

  1. Aarti

  2. Aavishkar Rangari

  3. Abani K Bhuyan, PSU 

  4. Abbasbhai

  5. Abdul

  6. Abha Rao

  7. Abhayraj Naik, Azim Premji University

  8. Abhi

  9. Abhijit Nagendranath

  10. Abhijith S

  11. Abhilash Paul

  12. Abhimanyu Chandra

  13. Abhishek Gupta

  14. Abhishek Sagar

  15. Abhradip Acharya

  16. Adaikala Regan

  17. Aditi Chowdhury

  18. Aditi Mehta, Constitutional Conduct Group

  19. Aditi P. Kaur

  20. Aditya Banerjee, Conservation Initiatives

  21. Aditya Panwar

  22. Aditya Vikram

  23. Adv. Manoj, Manoj Harit & Co 

  24. Adv. Milind Babar

  25. Advait Dharap

  26. Afreen Khan

  27. Afried Raman

  28. Agnibesh Mukherjee

  29. Ahesanali

  30. Ajesh Narayanan

  31. Alagammai

  32. Alstrin Cyrus, Kofluence

  33. Alwyn D'Souza

  34. Ameya

  35. Ameya Kelkar

  36. Amina Yasmeen

  37. Amit kumar

  38. Amit Prakash Ambasta

  39. Amitadyuti Kumar, APDR 

  40. Amitava Choudhury, Information and Action for Peoples' Right

  41. Amogh Barakol

  42. Amrita Johri, SNS 

  43. Amrita Shodhan

  44. Anand Arni

  45. Ananya Jain

  46. Aneesh Correa

  47. Angela

  48. Anil Sadgopal, All India Forum for Right to Education

  49. Anilkumar

  50. Anirudh

  51. Anita Das, Infosys

  52. Anjali Bhardwaj, SNS

  53. Ankita Aggarwal

  54. Annapurna Menon, University of Westminster

  55. Annie T

  56. Anubhav

  57. Anupama Datta, HelpAge India

  58. Anushka

  59. Anwesha Bhattacharya, Harvard Kennedy School

  60. Apurva Bamezai

  61. Archana Dwivedi

  62. Archismita Choudhury, Internet Freedom Foundation

  63. Ardhendu Sen

  64. Arnav Mathur

  65. Aroon Mohan

  66. Aroon Raman

  67. Arun Agnihotri

  68. Arun I

  69. Aruna Burte

  70. Aruna Rodrigues

  71. Arundhati Dhuru, NAPM

  72. Arup Kumar Sen 

  73. Arvind

  74. Ashish Asgekar

  75. Ashish M

  76. Ashok Choudhary, AIUFWP

  77. Ashok Nehru

  78. Ashok Sharma, Constitutional Conduct Group

  79. Ashwin Santhosh

  80. Ashwini

  81. Ayush

  82. Ayushi

  83. Baba Fakruddin

  84. Balaji

  85. Bandish Soparkar

  86. Barath N

  87. Beena Choksi

  88. Bernard D'Mello

  89. Bharat Varma

  90. Bharati Jagannathan

  91. Bhaskar

  92. Bidisha M

  93. Bishakha

  94. Bishakha Bhanja

  95. Boma

  96. Brindaalakshmi K

  97. Brinelle D'souza

  98. Britts

  99. C B

  100. C. Balakrishnan, Retired from the Govt of India

  101. Chaitali Dixit

  102. Chandrasekar R

  103. Chantal

  104. Chayanika Shah, Forum Against Oppression of Women

  105. Chetan

  106. Chhavi Sachdev

  107. Daniel Umi

  108. Danish Mukadam

  109. David Bodapati, The Cedars

  110. Deb Mukharji

  111. Deepak Kaushik

  112. Deepak Sanan, Constitutional Conduct Group 

  113. Deepthi

  114. Denice Mathew Thomas

  115. Deonis Baghwar

  116. Derick

  117. Divij Joshi

  118. Divya

  119. Divyangi

  120. Diwan Singh

  121. Dr V Rukmini Rao

  122. Dr.  Yogitha S, GFGC,  Saragur

  123. Dr. Mira Shiva

  124. Dr. Shakeel

  125. Dr. Suvajeet Duttagupta

  126. Dr. Tony PM, Social Research and Training Centre Ranchi

  127. Dr.Deepak Viswanath

  128. Dr.Sudhir Vombatkere

  129. Dunu Roy, Hazards Centre

  130. Eesha

  131. Elsa Muttathu

  132. Fareeha Jabeen

  133. Firoz Ahmad

  134. Francis Colaso

  135. Francis Parmar

  136. Gabriele Dietrich, NAPM 

  137. Garima

  138. Gaurav

  139. Gautam Chaudhury

  140. Gautam Mukhopadhaya

  141. Gautam Sonti

  142. Gayatri Singh, Sr Advocate, Bombay High Court

  143. Geo Peter Tharappel

  144. Gopal Krishna Pillai, Rerd. Government Officer 

  145. Gopalan Balagopal

  146. Goutham

  147. Gudu Sharma

  148. Hamid Ansari

  149. Hannan Mollah, All India Kisan Sabha

  150. Hardik

  151. Harikumar TP

  152. Haritha P.E

  153. Hemal

  154. Himan

  155. Himmat Singh Ratnoo

  156. Hiren Gandhi, Darshan 

  157. I Pillai

  158. Ibrahim

  159. Imrana Qadeer

  160. Indranee Dutta

  161. Irfan Engineer

  162. Ishwari

  163. Jagdeep Chhokar

  164. Jahnavi Visvanathan

  165. Jairus Banaji

  166. James Herenj, Convenor, Jharkhand NREGA Watch

  167. Jaskaran Singh

  168. Jayan

  169. Jayati Ghosh, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA

  170. Jibraan Mansoor

  171. Jitesh Gautam

  172. Jittu Varghese

  173. John Varghese

  174. Jomy Joseph

  175. Joseph

  176. Jyoti Punwani

  177. K Paul

  178. K S Gopal

  179. K. Sudhir, Peoples' Architectural Commonwealth 

  180. Kabir

  181. Kalyani Menon Sen, Independent researcher

  182. Kamayani Bali Mahabal

  183. Kannalmozhi Kabilan, The New Indian Express

  184. Karan

  185. Karan Garg

  186. Kartar K Sainani 

  187. Karthik Govil

  188. Karthik Narayana V, Sahyadri College of Engineering and Management

  189. Kaushik Tadvi

  190. Kaushiki Rao

  191. Kaustubh Mangam

  192. Kavita Srivastava, People's Union for Civil Liberties

  193. Keerti bhandary

  194. Kiara

  195. Kingshuk Dasgupta

  196. Kingshuk Roy

  197. Kinshuk Goyal

  198. Koninika Ray, National Federation of Indian Women

  199. Krishnadarsan

  200. Kumkum Roy

  201. Laavanya, LibTech India

  202. Lakshmi Venkatesan

  203. Lapanoha

  204. Lavneet

  205. Leon Morenas

  206. Lizmary BC

  207. M B Nataraj

  208. Madhava Prasad

  209. Madhu Bhaduri

  210. Madhura Chakraborty, Activist

  211. Madhura Padhye

  212. Mahinder Pal singh

  213. Mahua Kamat

  214. Malaika Mathew Chawla

  215. Malay Tewari, CPI (ML) Liberation 

  216. Malvika, Matterhorn Projects LLP

  217. Manan

  218. Manpreet

  219. Mansi Mehta

  220. Manu

  221. Maqbool Saleem

  222. Maria Aurora Couto, Writer

  223. Mayuresh Vaidya

  224. Meena Gupta

  225. Meera Dewan

  226. Meera. R

  227. Megha

  228. Megha Singh

  229. Melroy C F Fernandes

  230. Mit

  231. Mohini Mullick

  232. Mona Ambegaonkar

  233. Mrinalini Nayak

  234. Mubeen

  235. Mukesh

  236. Mukesh Malik

  237. Mukta Srivastava 

  238. Murugu

  239. Nafisa Barot, Utthan 

  240. Nakul Kishore Dumblekar

  241. Nandini Nayak, Ambedkar University Delhi

  242. Narayan Rao

  243. Nasruddin Shaikh

  244. Natashia Gonsalves, SUCDEN

  245. Navamita Chandra

  246. Navdha Malhotra

  247. Naveen Purushothaman

  248. Nayonika Bose

  249. Nazar Mohammad Shavadi

  250. NB Murthy

  251. Neela D’सूजा

  252. Neelakantan

  253. Neha

  254. Neha Chopra

  255. Neha Das

  256. Neil Fernandes 

  257. Nidhi

  258. Nihar

  259. Nikhil

  260. Nilanjan Dutta

  261. Nimmi

  262. Niranjani Iyer

  263. Nirvan, WIPRO

  264. Nisha Biswas

  265. Nishant Kumar

  266. Nishi Sharma

  267. Nitin

  268. Nivedh

  269. Omkar

  270. P Chaudhuri

  271. P K Mahesh

  272. P. R. Dasgupta, IAS Pensioner

  273. Padma Srinivasan

  274. Padma Velaskar

  275. Pallavi Sobti Rajpal

  276. Parampath Joy Oommen

  277. Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Independent journalist, author, publisher, documentary film-maker and teacher

  278. Paras Katiyar

  279. Parmu Singh

  280. Parul Soni

  281. Pascal Alan Nazareth

  282. Pat

  283. Pervin Jehangir

  284. Phani

  285. Philip Pinto

  286. Piyush

  287. Pooja Monani

  288. Poorna

  289. Praavita

  290. Prabhat Patnaik, Jawaharlal Nehru University

  291. Pracheta

  292. Prajit Basu

  293. Pranami Rajb

  294. Prasad Chacko

  295. Praveen, Times

  296. Preeti Sampat

  297. Prema

  298. Primus Kerketta

  299. Pritha Taraphder

  300. Priti

  301. Pritom Ghosh

  302. Priyam

  303. Priyanka Singh

  304. Priyesh Pavithran

  305. Procheta Mallik

  306. Prof. K Satchidanandan, Indian Writers Forum

  307. Prof.Mohan Rao

  308. Purwa Bharadwaj

  309. Pushkar Raj

  310. Pushpendra, Tata Institute of Social Sciences

  311. R K Grandhi

  312. R Ravishankar

  313. Rabin Chakraborty

  314. Radha Holla

  315. Raghavendra Rao

  316. Raghunandan Hegde

  317. Ragvendra Gadage

  318. Rahul Nair, Delhi University

  319. Rahul Saunik, Quikr India Private Limited

  320. Rajdeep Singh Puri

  321. Rajendran Narayanan, Azim Premji University, Bangalore

  322. Rajesh Krishnan

  323. Rajesh Mehar

  324. Raju Sharma, Retired Civil Servant

  325. Rakesh Shekhawat

  326. Rakhi Sehgal

  327. Ram

  328. Ramani Atkuri, Public Health Professional

  329. Ramani Venkatesan, Retired Civil Servant

  330. Ramesh Tikamdas Bajaj

  331. Ramyak Rohan Mohanty

  332. Ranabir Chakravarti

  333. Ranjeet Verma

  334. Raufa Shaikh, Students for Liberty

  335. Ravi Theja

  336. Revathi

  337. Ricky Saldanha

  338. Rishav Kundu, IIIT Hyderabad

  339. Rita Puthenkalam

  340. Riyaz

  341. RK Singh, Save Democracy

  342. Rohan Mathew

  343. Rohini Hensman

  344. Rohini Lakshané

  345. Rohith

  346. Roja Mathew

  347. Romar Correa, University of Mumbai

  348. Roop Kaur Brar

  349. Rosamma Thomas

  350. Roshan

  351. Raju

  352. Rudi Warjri, Constitutional Conduct Group

  353. Rupa

  354. Rupsa Mallik

  355. S Bharatwaj

  356. S.Durga Bhavani

  357. Sabih Ahmad

  358. Sadhna Arya, University of Delhi

  359. Sagar

  360. Sahil Gupta

  361. Sakina Dhorajiwala, LibTech India

  362. Samali Banerjee

  363. Sameet Panda, Odisha Khadya Adhikar Abhijan

  364. Samrudha Surana

  365. Samyak Jain, Advocate

  366. Sandeep Kumar Pattnaik

  367. Sandeep Manudhane

  368. Sandeep Yadav

  369. Sandhya Gokhale, Forum Against Oppression of Women

  370. Sandip

  371. Saniya Khan Golandaz

  372. Sanjay Palshiakar, University of Hyderabad

  373. Sanjay Upadhyay, SWORD

  374. Sanket

  375. Sanketh D S

  376. Sarada Mahesh

  377. Sarath, Motherleaf

  378. Sarika sinha

  379. Sarosh

  380. Satyabhama, IAS Retired CMD NSC Ministry of Agriculture

  381. Saudha Kasim

  382. Saumya

  383. Saumya Kaul

  384. Sautabh

  385. Sayantan Chaudhuri

  386. Shadab Ahmad

  387. Shahvir Aga

  388. Shaleen Jain

  389. Shankar Gopalakrishnan, Chetna Andolan, Uttarakhand

  390. Shantha Sinha

  391. Sharachchandra Lele

  392. Sharad Chandra Behar

  393. Sharada Ganesh

  394. Shardul Gopujkar, Parichay Legal Clinic

  395. Shashi

  396. Sheetal Fernandes

  397. Shekar

  398. Shevon  Abraham Samuel

  399. Shewli Kumar, Tata Institute of Social Sciences

  400. Shilpaa Anand, BITS-Pilani Hyderabad Campus

  401. Shirish B Patel, Shirish Patel & Associates

  402. Shiv

  403. Shivangi, Amity Law School, Delhi

  404. Shivani Yadav

  405. Shobhit Sinha

  406. Shounak Dewal

  407. Shubham

  408. Siddharth K J

  409. Sikandar Warsi

  410. Simrandeep

  411. Siraj Dutta, Right to Food Campaign Jharkhand

  412. Snehan Kekre, Streamlit, Inc

  413. Solomon

  414. Sonia Soni, SK Finance Ltd. 

  415. Sowjanya Chandrasekhar

  416. Sowmya Dechamma, UoH 

  417. Soumya Chakraborty

  418. SP Ambrose, Constitutional Conduct Group 

  419. Spandana L P

  420. Sravya D

  421. Sreechand

  422. Sreedev Krishnkumar

  423. Sreeharsha Thanneeru, Rythu Swarajya Vedika

  424. Srishti

  425. Srujana Bej

  426. Stuti Guha

  427. Subhodip Mukherjee

  428. Sudeshna Sengupta

  429. Sudha N

  430. Sudipto GhoshSuhail Ahmad

  431. Suhas Kolhekar

  432. Suhasini Mulay

  433. Sujata Patel, Kerstin Hesselgren Visiting Professor, Umea University

  434. Sujay Monga

  435. Sujay Naik, Zephyr

  436. Sukla SenSumender

  437. Sunaina

  438. Sundar Burra, Member, Constitutional Conduct Group

  439. Sunil Thamizh Kumar

  440. Suprateek Bose

  441. Suranjan Sinha, Independent researcher

  442. Susan Dhavle

  443. Sushant

  444. Swati Bishnoi 

  445. Swati Narayan, Right to Food Campaign

  446. Syed Ali Mujtaba

  447. Syeda Hameed, Muslim Womens Forum

  448. T Ramakrishnan

  449. Taj Aingh

  450. Tamanna Khan

  451. Tanima Xavier

  452. Tarangini, Azim Premji University

  453. Teesta Setalvad

  454. Tony, ATC

  455. Tousif Tamboli

  456. Tushar

  457. Uma Shankari

  458. Upendra R

  459. Usha Raman, University of Hyderabad

  460. V.P.Raja, Retd. IAS officer

  461. Vandana Prabha

  462. Varada Balachandran

  463. Varsha Harisubramaniam

  464. Varun

  465. Vasudha Verma

  466. Vasundhar, Exceleron

  467. Venkat

  468. Veronica Dungdung, Samajik Seva Sadan

  469. Vicky Rathore

  470. Vidya Subramanian

  471. Vidyut Gore

  472. Vignesh Balaji Velu

  473. Vijay Bharatiya

  474. Vijayendra Mohanty

  475. Vinayak Varma

  476. Vindhya

  477. Vinish Gupta, Centre for Holistic Learning

  478. Vir Bharat talwar

  479. Vishal Talreja

  480. Visvanathan V

  481. Vivek

  482. Vivek Dandekar

  483. Vivek Jindal

  484. Vivek Mathur

  485. Yash Marwah, Let India Breathe

  486. Yashasvi Karnena

  487. Zakir Husain Memaya

  488. Zishan

  489. Zuber