As Long As BJP Is There, No One Can Abolish Quotas: Amit Shah On Rahul Gandhi's Reservation Remarks In US

Union Home Minister and BJP leader Amit Shah on Wednesday (11 September) launched a scathing attack on Rahul Gandhi over his remarks on the issue of reservation during the Congress leader's ongoing US visit.

Hitting out at Rahul Gandhi's remarks, Union Home Minister Amit Shah today said it has become a habit for the Congress leader to stand with "forces that conspire to divide the country".

During at an interaction with students at Georgetown University in the US, Rahul Gandhi responded to a question on reservation, saying, "We will think of scrapping reservations when India is a fair place and India is not a fair place".

"Standing with forces that conspire to divide the country and making anti-national statements have become a habit for Rahul Gandhi and the Congress party. 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 in a post on X.

"Rahul Gandhi's statement lays bare the Congress's politics of causing rifts on the lines of regionalism, religion, and linguistic differences. By speaking about abolishing reservations in the country, Rahul 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," he added.

"I want to tell Rahul Gandhi that as long as the BJP is there, neither can anyone abolish reservations nor can anyone mess with the nation's security," the Union Home Minister said.

This comes after Mayawati had also hit out at Gandhi and Congress over the reservation remarks.

Taking note of what the Congress leader said in US, Mayawati said that Gandhi's remarks make it clear that Congress has been conspiring to end the reservation of Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST) and Other Backward Classes (OBC) for years.

She accused the Congress of neither implementing OBC reservation nor conducting a caste census when it was in power and claimed that Gandhi's demand for a caste census was just a facade to come to power.

Mayawati cautioned SCs, STs and OBCs of the 'dangerous statement' given by Gandhi and said, "As soon as this party comes to power at the centre, it will definitely end the reservation under the pretext of this statement."

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