Union Minister Kiren Rijiju has reacted to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's call for 'jitni abadi, utna haq (rights proportionate to population)', claiming that he is "playing with fire" and that this would "kill India". He stated that hilly north-eastern states, Ladakh and Arunachal Pradesh have "thousands of tiny communities" which have less population and they would be "deprived of everything".