Bhopal, Nov. 11 -- Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Wednesday said that he would respond to Sonia Gandhi's memoir after reading it, while alleging that the Congress' ideology had always been centred around appeasement and vote-bank politics.

"I have not even seen the book yet; I have only heard about it. I will go through it and understand its contents first, and then I will respond. The entire country knows that the ideology she embraced has always been centred around appeasement. The Congress ruled the country for 60 years, and all it did was work for vote-bank politics," Dhami told reporters.

He alleged that the Congress governments had neglected national security and failed to boost the morale of soldiers guarding t...