Union Home Minister Amit Shah slammed Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday for allegedly aligning with those who seek to divide India. Shah accused Gandhi and the Congress party of routinely making anti-national statements.

Shah’s remarks follow a series of comments made by Rahul Gandhi about Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his administration during his recent tour of the United States.

On X, Shah wrote, “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 also claimed that Gandhi’s comments reveal Congress’s strategy of creating divisions based on regionalism, religion, and linguistic differences.

During a Q&A session at Georgetown University, Rahul Gandhi responded to a question on reservation and how long it would continue by saying, “We will think of scrapping reservations when India is a fair place. And India is not a fair place. When you look at the financial numbers, tribals get 10 paise out of Rs 100; Dalits get Rs 5 out of Rs 100, and OBCs get a similar number. The fact of the matter is that they’re not getting participation.”

He also reiterated the need to conduct a caste census saying that 90% of the country’s population – OBCs, Dalits and Adivasis – don’t have proper representation in the country.

“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,” Shah said and 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.”