“Nation Is Like a Large Ship, We Sail or Sink Together”: NSA Ajit Doval at Muslim Community Meet

April 24, 2026

New Delhi: National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval held a significant meeting with the Muslim community recently, during which he emphasised that many youths from the community have been recruited into the Indian Army and Paramilitary forces over the last 12 years. He pointed out that India is like a large ship and citizens are all sailors and “we sail or sink together.”

The NSA said that it is important to embrace multiple identities and added that this is better than reducing oneself to a singular religious identity.

It is important that Muslims do not subsume their diverse identities into a singular religious identity and consider it as supreme, he said. Ajit Doval was addressing a delegation that comprised educationists, social workers and industrialists in New Delhi this month.

“The country is a like a large ship, and we are all sailors. We sail or sink together,” he said. All Indians past, present or future are all part of the same national continuum, he added.

Industrialists from Gujarat and Maharashtra including Faruk Patel, the chairman of KP Group, Enamel and Ibrar Raki, CMDs German Steel Co. Haji Rayama from Kutch, Altaf Sadikot from the Dawoodi Bora community and Juned Sharif, CMD, Niton Valves Ltd were also present.