All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Thursday hit back at Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Navneet Rana over her controversial '15 second' threat comment and said he wasn't afraid of her.
On Wednesday, Rana, the BJP candidate from Maharashtra's Amravati, addressed a public rally in support of the BJP candidate from Hyderabad, Madhavi Latha, and issued an open threat to the Owaisi brothers. She said, “It might take you 15 minutes, but it only takes us 15 seconds… it takes all of us 15 seconds when we come to the fore.”
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Reacting to her comment, Asaduddin Owaisi said he would like to tell Prime Minister Narendra Modi to give her even an hour.
“I say to Modi ji: give her 15 seconds. What are you going to do?… Give her 15 seconds, give her 1 hour. We also want to see if there is still any humanity left in you. Who's afraid? We are ready. If anyone makes an open call for it, then so be it,” Owaisi said while speaking to the media.
'Tell us where to go, we will be there. Do it,” the AIMIM chief said, adding, “PM is yours, RSS is yours, everything is yours. Do it. Who's stopping you?”
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Owaisi also slammed Rana's comments that the vote for AIMIM and Congress goes straight to Pakistan.
“In 2014, Narendra Modi suddenly landed at Nawaz Sharif's house…What was that? They feel that all Muslims in India are Pakistanis. We have to defeat this RSS ideology. They hate India's pluralism and diversity,” he added.
While former Maharashtra CM and Congress leader Prithviraj Chavan asked the Election Commission to probe Rana's statement, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Anand Dubey said whether it is Navneet Rana or the Owaisi brothers, they speak the same language.
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“Someone says: give me fifteen minutes of police, then we will teach the Hindus a lesson. Someone says: give me fifteen minutes of police and we will teach the Muslims a lesson. They finally had to talk about Hindu-Muslims…BJP distributes certificates of Hindutva and imparts knowledge of morality to others,” ANI Dubey quoted.
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Published: May 9, 2024 2:45 PM IST