Claim: An AIMIM leader made the ‘15 minutes remaining’ comment during a public meeting in Hyderabad.
Fact: The claim is false. The video is from a campaign meeting at Nanded during the Maharashtra elections in 2024.
The clip shows the leader saying to a cheering crowd, “15 minutes are still remaining. I’m also slave of Akbaruddin Owaisi. I’m also a ’15 minutes’ person.”
The ‘15 minutes comment’ refers to a controversial statement made by AIMIM leader Akbaruddin Owaisi in 2013 about ‘removing police for 15 minutes to show who is powerful.’
Fact Check
NewsMeter found that the claim is false. The viral video is not from Hyderabad but from an election campaign event at Urdu Ghar, Nanded, during the Maharashtra elections last year.
At the 41:41-minute mark, the contents of the YouTube video matched with the viral clip, confirming the clip’s origin. Additionally, the viral video carried a watermark of MCN Urdu News, which matched the logo of the YouTube channel that uploaded the full-length video. This confirmed that the footage is from the Maharashtra election campaign and not from a Hyderabad event.
In his clarification, he stated, “It has been a long time since the ‘15 minutes’ comment has been made. I was a candidate of AIMIM from Nanded for the Legislative Assembly elections. I made that statement on the last day of campaigning when 15 minutes were left for my speech. When I heard people talking about the time left, I said that there were still 15 minutes left and that I was also a ’15 minutes’ man. If I had made any derogatory comments against any community or religion or my Hindu brothers, certainly, action would have been taken against me immediately and an FIR would have been filed.” In his clarification, we can see that Syed Moin said he made the ‘15 minutes’ comment during a speech in Nanded, not Hyderabad.
Therefore, the claim that an AIMIM leader recently made that comment in Hyderabad is false. The video is from an election campaign in Nanded, Maharashtra, and is unrelated to Hyderabad.
