The BJP at this time launched an all-out assault on Chief of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi over his remarks within the US, with Union Residence Minister Amit Shah and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh becoming a member of the occasion’s offensive towards the Congress chief’s reservation comment.
Hitting out at Rahul Gandhi’s remarks, Union Residence Minister Amit Shah at this time stated it has grow to be a behavior for the Congress chief to face with “forces that conspire to divide the nation”.
“Standing with forces that conspire to divide the nation and making anti-national statements have grow to be a behavior for Rahul Gandhi and the Congress occasion. Whether or not it’s supporting the JKNC’s anti-national and anti-reservation agenda in J&Okay or making anti-India statements on international platforms, Rahul Gandhi has at all times threatened the nation’s safety and damage sentiments,” Mr Shah stated in a submit on X.
Standing with forces that conspire to divide the nation and making anti-national statements have grow to be a behavior for Rahul Gandhi and the Congress occasion. Whether or not it’s supporting the JKNC’s anti-national and anti-reservation agenda in J&Okay or making anti-India statements on…
— Amit Shah (@AmitShah) September 11, 2024
“Rahul Gandhi’s assertion lays naked the Congress’s politics of inflicting rifts on the traces of regionalism, faith, and linguistic variations. By talking about abolishing reservations within the nation, Rahul Gandhi has as soon as once more introduced the Congress’s anti-reservation face to the forefront. The ideas that have been in his thoughts finally discovered their approach out as phrases,” he added.
“I need to inform Rahul Gandhi that so long as the BJP is there, neither can anybody abolish reservations nor can anybody mess with the nation’s safety,” the Residence Minister stated.
Mr Shah was responding to Mr Gandhi’s remarks at an interplay with college students at Georgetown College within the US. Responding to a query on reservation, Mr Gandhi replied, “We’ll consider scrapping reservations when India is a good place and India shouldn’t be a good place.”
The BJP responded by alleging that the Congress’s chief marketing campaign to avoid wasting the Structure was a “charade” and his prejudice towards reservation is out within the open.
Opposition to reservation is Rahul Gandhi’s legacy, senior BJP chief Ravi Shankar Prasad stated, saying that former prime ministers Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi have been additionally towards caste-based reservation.
Mr Prasad stated different members of the Opposition’s INDIA bloc — DMK chief M Okay Stalin, RJD supremo Lalu Prasad, Samajwadi Social gathering president Akhilesh Yadav and leaders of the Left events — ought to communicate out on Mr Gandhi’s remarks.
“I need to warn (folks) that if the Congress tries to tamper with the supply of reservation in any approach or scrap it, the BJP will vehemently oppose it,” he stated.
The BJP’s offensive towards Rahul Gandhi additionally must be seen towards the backdrop of the upcoming Meeting polls in key states corresponding to Maharashtra and Jharkhand. The occasion, which is on the backfoot after its Lok Sabha ballot rating dropped this time, needs to make use of Mr Gandhi’s remarks to undertaking the Opposition as anti-reservation in an try to swing voters.
Mr Gandhi’s remarks throughout his three-day US journey, through which he repeatedly focused BJP and its ideological mother or father, has drawn a pointy response from the ruling occasion.
Mr Gandhi additionally stated the “worry of BJP” had vanished after the Lok Sabha ballot outcomes. “Inside minutes of the election outcome, no person was frightened of the BJP and the Prime Minister of India. These are large achievements, not of Rahul Gandhi or Congress, however of the folks of India who realised we’re not going to simply accept an assault on the Structure,” he stated.
In response, BJP’s Gaurav Bhatia advised the media, “Everybody is aware of that Rahul Gandhi is an immature and part-time chief. However folks have put an enormous accountability on his shoulders since he turned the Chief of Opposition. However I really feel unhappy to say that Rahul Gandhi is a black spot in Indian democracy. He doesn’t even know what to speak about when he visits a international nation.”
