"He meant to settle things...": AIMIM leader Akhtarul Iman defends Akbaruddin Owaisi's '15-Minute' remark
May 10, 2024
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], May 10 : In response to AIMIM leader Akbaruddin Owaisi's controversial "15-minute" remark made in 2013, AIMIM Bihar President Akhtarul Iman defended him, stating that Owaisi intended to resolve tensions between Hindus and Muslims if given 15 minutes.
Iman emphasized that Owaisi did not imply violence but rather suggested that removing police presence could enable communities to settle disputes peacefully.
Reacting to BJP leader Navneet Rana's response to Owaisi's comment, Imam said, "The people of BJP cannot understand anything. Akbaruddin Owaisi did not say that in "15 minutes" he would murder someone or burn someone's house, he meant to say that, removing the Police and Hindu-Muslim brothers would settle everything together. Wherever there are clashes it is the police who ignite it"
BJP Madhya Pradesh State In charge Muralidhar Rao also slammed Owaisi for his remarks and accused the AIMIM of practising the "divide and rule" policy.
"AIMIM represents the communal ideology, and they follow the policy of divide and rule. People know the history of MIM. They have never disowned the legacy of Razakars, even today whenever they criticize Hindus, they bring up Hindu deities. The problem is not AIMIM, it is the Congress and BRS who have taken support from MIM, and that is the reason they have supported Muslim reservation, based on religion," Rao said while speaking to ANI.
Earlier, while responding to the AIMIM leader Akbaruddin Owaisi's statement that they would take them all of '15 minutes' to balance out the "Hindu-Muslim ratio" in the country, Navneet, who is seeking a fresh term in the Lok Sabha from Amravati, on a BJP ticket this time; hit back at the Owaisi brothers, saying "it would take us 15 seconds if the police were removed or made to stand down".
Rana was heard saying in a video clip she posted on her X handle, tagging the Owaisi brothers, "The younger brother says, 'Remove the police for 15 minutes so that we can show them what we can do'. I want to tell the younger brother (Akbaruddin) that it might take you 15 minutes, but it will only take us 15 seconds. It will take us all of 15 seconds if we come to the forefront."
At a meeting in 2013, Akbaruddin Owaisi warned "100 crore Hindus" that his community would show what it could do if the police were withdrawn for '15 minutes'.
