Jaipur: BJP state president Madan Rathore Wednesday responded to former Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s remarks in her memoir that she had “practically no real contact” with Prime Minister Narendra Modi despite his more than 12 years in office, saying she should seek an appointment if she wanted to meet him.Rathore said Modi was accessible to everyone and allocated time for meetings depending on his availability. “There is no question of him avoiding anyone. He speaks to children as well as elders and meets people. One has to seek time. Gandhi should seek an appointment and the PM will meet her,” he said.Rathore also targeted the Congress over the Emergency and the controversy surrounding Sanjay Gandhi’s role during that period.He said the party should acknowledge the Emergency as a dark chapter in the country’s history.“As long as Sanjay Gandhi was alive, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi followed his system. It is not right to criticise him and put him in the dock after his death. Emergency was a black chapter. Indira Gandhi had murdered democracy, and the Congress should accept this,” he said.However, Rathore added that suggestions that Sanjay was indirectly running the govt raised further questions about the leadership of the then prime minister.
