Modi's remark and Imam's 2020 speech are real.
Why we say that›
No emails or foreign plots tie environmental activists and journalists to mental Naxals as the reel claims.
Modi's call to isolate dimagi Naxals and Imam's AMU speech on the Chicken's Neck are documented. The reel gives no source for emails from a Thailand-Cambodia beach dispute and assigns the mental Naxal label to journalists and NGOs with no supporting record. This turns two verified facts into an unevidenced group-wide foreign-backed conspiracy.
Modi's remark and Imam's 2020 speech are real. No evidence shows emails, the beach dispute, or that these groups are mental Naxals working with foreign elements.
Reported 19 Aug 2026
Claims
2 true · 3 unchecked
- Couldn't check
Emails were found discussing how quickly Arunachal and some parts of Kashmir could be shown as Chinese or disputed territory inside India.
What's actually true
No source mentions any emails, beach dispute, or discussion of changing Indian territory maps.
- Couldn't check
Environmental activists, journalists, NGO workers, and others are mental Naxals.
What's actually true
No source labels these groups as mental Naxals or links them to the claimed emails.
- Couldn't check
Sharjeel Imam said in a speech at AMU: If we have 5 lakh people with us, we can cut off the Northeast from India for one or two months by putting rubble on tracks and roads because the Chicken’s Neck corridor is dominated by Muslims.
What's actually true
We couldn't verify this claim with a reliable source. Sharjeel Imam said this in his January 2020 AMU speech as shown in multiple reports of the video.
- True
Modi said that these mental Naxals need to be isolated.
What's actually true
Modi said in his 2026 Independence Day speech that dimagi Naxals must be identified and isolated.
- True
JNU student Sharjeel Imam facing sedition charge arrested from Bihar.
What's actually true
Delhi Police arrested him on 28 January 2020 in Bihar after sedition cases in multiple states.
The full story, from the sources›
For example in Bihar there is a big rally everyday, take the Kanhaiya Kumar rally where five lakh people were present, the problem with that is if we have five lakh people organized, then we can cut Hindustan and North-east permanently. Even if not permanently, for one or two months we can cut, put things on the tracks that they take one two months to remove it. To cut Assam is our responsibility, Assam and India get cut then only they will listen to us.... - BOOM (2020-01-25) Agitate and cut off chicken-neck corridor to isolate Assam from India: Sharjeel Imam. - India Today (2020-01-25) Assam aur India katke alag ho jaaye, tabhi ye humari baat sunenge (Only once India and Assam are cut off from each other will they listen to us), he can be heard as saying in the video. (AMU speech, 16 Jan 2020). - ThePrint (2020-01-28) Delhi Police on Tuesday arrested JNU research scholar… Sharjeel Imam, who has been booked in a sedition case… (Patna/Jehanabad, Jan 2020). - thefederal.com (2020-01-28) If five lakh people are organised, we can cut off the Northeast from India permanently. If not, at least for a month. Throw such amount of rubbish on railway tracks and roads that it takes the Air Force a month to clear it. Cutting off Assam (from India) is our responsibility. Only then they (the government) will listen to us. - India Today (2020-01-29)
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For example in Bihar there is a big rally everyday, take the Kanhaiya Kumar rally where five lakh people were present, the problem with that is if we have five lakh people organized, then we can cut Hindustan and North-east permanently. Even if not permanently, for one or two months we can cut, put things on the tracks that they take one two months to remove it. To cut Assam is our responsibility, Assam and India get cut then only they will listen to us....
If five lakh people are organised, we can cut off the Northeast from India permanently. If not, at least for a month. Throw such amount of rubbish on railway tracks and roads that it takes the Air Force a month to clear it. Cutting off Assam (from India) is our responsibility. Only then they (the government) will listen to us.
Agitate and cut off chicken-neck corridor to isolate Assam from India: Sharjeel Imam.
Assam aur India katke alag ho jaaye, tabhi ye humari baat sunenge (Only once India and Assam are cut off from each other will they listen to us), he can be heard as saying in the video. (AMU speech, 16 Jan 2020)
It is imperative to identify and isolate them while connecting the youth with the goal of building a developed India,” he said. (PM Modi, 15 Aug 2026 Independence Day speech, referring to “dimagi Naxals)
PM Modi used the phrase “dimagi Naxal” during his Independence Day address… called for such people to be “identified and isolated.
Supreme Court analysed Sharjeel Imam’s “Chicken’s Neck/Siliguri Corridor speech; described as objectionable.
Delhi Police on Tuesday arrested JNU research scholar… Sharjeel Imam, who has been booked in a sedition case… (Patna/Jehanabad, Jan 2020).
इन दिमागी नक्सलियों को पहचानना होगा। इन दिमागी नक्सलियों को isolate करना होगा।
On 28 January 2020, Sharjeel Imam surrendered to Delhi Police in his native village of Kako. (Bihar).
Notes on this check (4)›
- The reel's central argument depends on claims that were not independently established, so it is reported as misleading context rather than as facts with a false point.
- Dropped 1 support citation(s) for "Modi said that these mental Naxals need to be isolated." because the cited passages do not address the claim directly.
- Dropped 4 support citation(s) for "Sharjeel Imam said in a speech at AMU: If we have 5 lakh …" because the cited passages do not address the claim directly.
- Dropped 3 support citation(s) for "JNU student Sharjeel Imam facing sedition charge arrested…" because the cited passages do not address the claim directly.
Checked against 4 sources · 19 Aug 2026
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