New Delhi. Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday said that Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi’s remarks in Lok Sabha on reservation have exposed the anti-reservation face of the Congress and making “anti-national statements” has become a habit of the opposition leader and his party.
Targeting Rahul Gandhi, Shah also said that as long as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is there, nobody can abolish reservation nor play with the security of the country.
Rahul Gandhi is currently on a four-day visit to America. During this, he addressed programs organized at many places including Georgetown University and Virginia’s suburb Herndon and put forth his views on many issues including democracy and elections in India. BJP leaders are calling his comments anti-India and have been attacking him for the last few days. While talking to journalists at a press conference at the ‘National Press Club’ in Washington on Tuesday, Rahul Gandhi said that democracy in India has been badly damaged in the last 10 years but now democracy is coming back on track.
Shah said in a post on ‘X’, “It has become a habit of Rahul Gandhi and the Congress party to speak anti-national things and stand with forces that divide the country. Whether it is supporting the anti-national and anti-reservation agenda of the National Conference in Jammu and Kashmir or speaking anti-India things on foreign forums, Rahul Gandhi has endangered the security of the country.” He said that talking about bringing discrimination from language to language, region to region and religion to religion shows Rahul Gandhi’s ‘divisive’ thinking.
Shah said that by talking about ending reservation, Rahul Gandhi has once again brought the anti-reservation face of the Congress in front of the country.
He said, “The thoughts and ideas of the mind come out through some medium or the other. I want to tell Rahul Gandhi that as long as BJP is there, no one can touch reservation and no one can play with the unity of the country.” Rahul Gandhi had said on Monday while interacting with students at Georgetown University that Congress will think about ending reservation only when everyone in the country starts getting equal opportunities and at present such a situation does not exist in India.