00:00So it's not just about slogans or graffiti on university campus walls.
00:05It's also about the words, the politics.
00:07And in the past, let's talk about these two men whose names remain in the eye of a storm.
00:14Sharjeeel Imam and Umar Khalid.
00:17They stand accused in a larger conspiracy case linked to the 2020 Anti-CAA,
00:24Anti-Citizenship Amendment Act, riots in the national capital and other parts of the country.
00:31The prosecution has accused them of being part of a wider conspiracy behind the riots.
00:37They face serious charges under the UAPA, under various provisions also of the IPC,
00:43including a criminal conspiracy and offences linked to rioting and violence.
00:46Both have been denied bail by courts of law.
00:49But it is Sharjeeel Imam's own words that, once again, brings him in the eye of a storm.
00:57So there is this raging debate over his ideology being in conflict with the Constitution of India.
01:02Imam is reported to have argued that the Constitution of India denies Muslims adequate representation.
01:10He calls it a roadblock, a words to the effect, a roadblock to dignified existence of Muslims
01:15and other religious minorities and claims, it actually entrenches centralization.
01:20The Constitution of India, words to the effect that all this is a fascist narrative.
01:25Now, these are not just first of his remarks to trigger a national, a controversy of sorts.
01:33In January 2020, and I want you to look at those images,
01:37this was at the Aligarh Muslim University.
01:39Sharjeeel Imam spoke about cutting off India's northeast at the chicken's neck area
01:45and crippling, crippling India's northeast or supplies to the northeast.
01:52Don't hear it from me.
01:54Hear Sharjeeel Imam's comments in 2020,
01:58which now he claims or reportedly has claimed was not about cutting off chicken's neck area
02:04or cutting off India's northeast entirely,
02:07but then calling for a chakka jam or words to the effect
02:10that a political protest in that area,
02:14in that very sensitive, militarily, strategically,
02:17is very sensitive chicken's neck area,
02:19a chakka jam there,
02:20so that the government would listen to them.
02:23Listen in.
02:48Listen in.
