Jyotiraditya Scindia to Praful Patel, Rahul Gandhi is accessible to none

Himanta Biswa Sarma claimed he kept trying for a meeting with Gandhi and when he got it, Gandhi was more interested in playing with his pet than talking politics with Sarma

Rahul Gandhi has dismissed erstwhile colleague Jyotiraditya Scindia’s complaint that he never took his calls, saying: “He was a friend of mine. He could walk into my house any time”. Sadly, that has not always been the case. Former Congress leader Natwar Singh in an interview to news channel NewsX pointed out that even the late Sheila Dikshit had to wait for days before being granted a meeting with Rahul Gandhi — and when he finally met her he barely gave her a hearing. She was a three-term chief minister. 

And Dikshit’s case was hardly an exception as the list of