'Not scared, take one hour': Owaisi responds to Rana's '15-second' remark
The BJP leader's blistering attack came in response to a 2013 controversial speech by AIMIM MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi
In a scathing attack against AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi and his brother Akbaruddin, BJP leader Navneet Rana has said that if the police were removed from duty for "15 seconds, the brothers would not know from where they came and where they went".
Rana's blistering attack came in response to a 2013 controversial speech by AIMIM MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi in which he said it would take them only "15 minutes" to balance the "Hindu-Muslim ratio" in the country if the police were removed.
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"The younger one (Akbarauddin) says remove the police for 15 minutes and we will show what we can do. Let me tell the younger one, you will take 15 minutes; it will be only 15 seconds for us. If you remove police for 15 seconds, you won't know where you came from and where you went away," said Rana, the BJP's candidate from Maharashtra's Amravati Lok Sabha seat.
Rana shared a video clip of her making the comments on social media platform X.
She was campaigning in support of BJP's Hyderabad Lok Sabha candidate K Madhavi Latha and others in Telangana on Wednesday.
Give one hour: Owaisi
Asked about her comments, AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi said he would like to tell Prime Minister Narendra Modi to give even one hour.
“Modiji has power, give 15 seconds, rather take one hour. We also would like to see how much humanity is left or not. Who is scared? Who is stopping you? The prime minister is yours in Delhi. RSS is yours. Everything is yours. Tell us where to come. We will come,” Owaisi told reporters.
On Navneet Rana's reported comments that a vote to AIMIM would go to Pakistan, Owaisi said RSS and BJP have hatred towards the country's diversity and pluralism. The RSS ideology should be defeated, he said.
Questions Modi’s Pak visit
Owaisi said that PM Modi had suddenly landed in Pakistan from Afghanistan, and reached former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's residence in 2014. "What was it," he asked.
Modi described Muslims as infiltrators and also said that Muslims produce more children, and the same language is being used, he pointed out.
When told that the controversy started with the comments of '15 minutes' by his brother Akbaruddin, he said the matter was decided in courts. "We are saying you do it. Why do you say? We are sitting here. Do it. We are saying do it. You have to do it," he said, furthering emphasising his point.
(With agency inputs)