Overview

• He described population shifts in Assam, West Bengal and Purvanchal over the past 30–40 years as a ticking time bomb that could fuel calls for partition within 50 years.
• He argued that state boundaries drawn on linguistic lines after Independence have created “second-class citizens” and deepened regional resentments.
• He invoked the 1947 Partition and the Soviet Union’s 1991 collapse to illustrate his view that military power alone cannot repair internal ideological fractures.
• He held up Operation Sindoor as evidence of how swift military-political intervention can achieve objectives but stressed that cohesion requires more than force.
• He pointed to the Northeast’s post-2014 infrastructure boom—new airports, roads and railways—as proof that development can neutralize internal security threats.