“Opinion | WhyDemographic Inversion In West Bengal Is A Clear And Present Danger”, News 18, 2026
“One of the key references Sharjeel Imam made in his 2020 speech which landed him in all sorts of trouble and rightly so – was to the growing Muslim population in the Chicken’s Neck Corridor, which, he stated, could be harnessed to engineer an insurrection to cut it off from India’s mainland, thus wresting the North East away from the rest of the country. The overt threat that Imam implicated also in the Delhi riots case-made no longer remains a polemical or rhetorical mention, particularly with regard to the demographic inversion taking place across several districts of West Bengal.
The demographic shifts at the district level in India’s most densely populated state are more pronounced and perhaps irreversible in areas along the international border with Bangladesh. Border districts such as Murshidabad, Malda, North 24 Parganas, and Uttar Dinajpur have witnessed momentous changes over recent decades, with Murshidabad now recording a Muslim majority over the Hindus-well above 60 per cent according to census and demographic estimates-representing a marked, rather worrisome, reversal from earlier periods.
Malda too was recorded as a Muslim majority district in the 2011 census, with more than half the district’s population belonging to the said community. Further, North 24 Parganas and Uttar Dinajpur, which previously did not have overwhelming majorities, show substantially increased Muslim population shares and rapid growth compared to previously recorded, historical figures…..”
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This demographic shift, partly due to incursion of Muslims from Bangladesh, is a direct threat to India’s chicken neck corridor in the North-East! The possibility of coalscing this N-E sector of West bengal with Bangladesh in the near future is shimmering! And that’s alarming in the wake of ISIS runover of B’Desh!