Union Home Minister Amit Shah said Wednesday Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's quota remark has once again exposed the Congress' "anti-reservation face" and that making "anti-national statements" has become a habit for the opposition leader and his party.

Sending a stern message to Gandhi, Shah also said that as long as the BJP is there, no one can abolish reservation or mess with the nation's security.

The senior BJP leader's comments came after Gandhi told students of Georgetown University in the US that the Congress would think of scrapping reservations when "India is a fair place", which he said is not the case right now.

In a post on X, Shah said, "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." He added that whether it was supporting the National Conference's "anti-national and anti-reservation agenda" in Jammu and Kashmir or making "anti-India statements" on foreign platforms, Rahul Gandhi has "always threatened" the nation's security and hurt sentiments.

"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," Shah wrote.

The Union home minister said the thoughts that were in the Lok Sabha leader of the opposition's mind have now found their way out as words.

"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," he said.

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