New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday came down heavily upon Congress leader and Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi over his reservation remarks and said that making anti-national statements and supporting forces that conspire to divide the country have become his habit.
“Whether it is supporting the JKNC’s anti-national and anti-reservation agenda in J&K or making anti-India statements on foreign platforms, Rahul Gandhi has always threatened the nation’s security and hurt sentiments,” Shah said.
Gandhi who was on a three-day unofficial trip to the US on Monday said that the Congress will consider scrapping reservations when India is a fair place, which is not the case right now. Talking to students at the prestigious Georgetown University, he said, “We will think of scrapping reservations when India is a fair place. And India is not a fair place.”
Hitting out at the Congress leader, Shah said that by speaking about abolishing reservations in the country, Gandhi has once again brought the Congress’s anti-reservation face to the forefront. “The thoughts that were in his mind eventually found their way out as words,” Shah said. He further said that Gandhi’s statement lays bare the Congress’s politics of causing rifts on the lines of regionalism, religion, and linguistic differences.
Shah also asserted that as long as the BJP is in power, neither can anyone abolish reservations nor can anyone mess with the nation’s security.
