Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday blasted Congress MP Rahul Gandhi for making "anti-India" and "anti-national" remarks during his trips abroad. He said Gandhi has "always threatened the nation's security and hurt sentiments".
"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," he tweeted.
"Rahul Gandhi's statement lays bare the Congress's politics of causing rifts on the lines of regionalism, religion, and linguistic differences."
The Union Home Minister also blasted Gandhi on the issue of reservation, saying that "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. 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."
Amit Shah's tweet came a day after Rahul Gandhi spoke on reservation, as well as religious freedom in India, causing a political storm.
While addressing an interactive session at Georgetown University in Washington D.C., the Congress MP said "we should think of scrapping reservations only when India becomes a fair place. And India is not a fair place right now".
On religious freedom in India, the Congress MP said at an event in Virginia that the "fight (in India) is about whether a Sikh is going to be allowed to wear a turban...whether a Sikh will be allowed to wear a kada or go to the Gurudwara. That's what the fight is about, and it's not just for Sikhs, but for all religions".
His statements have caused a political storm and drew sharp criticism from top BJP leaders.