Goanet Digest, Vol 21, Issue 236

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Today's Topics:

   1. Listen to: Najeeb Jung, former Vice Chancellor of Jamia
      Millia Islamia - "Muslims [read: all Minorities] in danger of
      becoming second class citizens; they're in a very very grave
      situation: Najeeb Jung to Karan Thapar for The Wire. (Vivek Pinto)


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Date: Mon, 11 May 2026 19:00:16 +0900
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Subject: [Goanet] Listen to: Najeeb Jung, former Vice Chancellor of
	Jamia Millia Islamia - "Muslims [read: all Minorities] in danger of
	becoming second class citizens; they're in a very very grave
	situation: Najeeb Jung to Karan Thapar for The Wire.
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By: Karan Thapar
Published in:
*The Wire*Date: May 11, 2026
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je6dvjKWrnA
*Note*: The transcript is embedded in the source.
"The former Lieutenant Governor of Delhi who is also a former Vice
Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia says Muslims are in danger of becoming
second class citizens. They?re in a very grave situation.

Asked if Indian Muslims have become second class citizens in their own
country, Najeeb Jung said: 'They?re knocking on the doors of being second
class citizens by the way they?re being treated by the state ? yes, I think
they will be in deep trouble. That is on the anvil. Today they?re in a very
very grave situation.'

This is how Najeeb Jung described the situation Indian Muslims find
themselves in today: 'A minority in the backyard at the moment, a minority
that is ill-treated, a minority that doesn?t find a place in the Indian
horizon at the moment. And it?s hurting. Where it will go, I cannot say.
But it requires introspection from everyone. Right now it?s only the
liberal society that is concerned about it ? and that is going to be
disastrous for us.'

In the interview, Najeeb Jung also spoke about the elections held in Bengal
and Assam where, though 27% and 34% of the respective population is Muslim,
the BJP did not field a single Muslim candidate.

Dr. Jung also addressed the fact that for the first time since independence the
Central government doesn?t have a single Muslim minister and the BJP
doesn?t have a single elected Muslim MP in Parliament.

Once upon a time India had Muslim presidents, vice-presidents, Home and
External Affairs ministers and occasionally heads of armed forces and
intelligence agencies. Today no Indian state has a Muslim chief minister,
several don?t even have Muslim ministers. We have just one Muslim governor,
one Muslim central government secretary out of 100 and one Muslim Supreme
Court judge out of 32. Does this suggest Muslims are being squeezed out of
the public life of the country? I will leave you to hear the interview to
find out Najeeb Jung?s answer.

Yet Muslims are 15% of the population and probably number 200 million.
That?s a very sizeable number. How do Muslims view this outcome where their
votes don?t matter to the ruling party, their participation in public life
has sharply shrunk and they?re relegated to the opposition, who itself is
shy of championing Muslim causes for fear of alienating Hindu voters?
Again, I will leave you to hear the interview to find out Najeeb Jung?s
answer."


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