Jaipur: The BJP’s Rajasthan unit president Madan Rathore has sent a show cause to Cabinet minister Kirodi Lal Meena for “tarnishing” the state government’s reputation by alleging in a public meeting recently that his phone was being tapped, party leaders said on Monday. Kirodi Lal Meena, however, claimed ignorance about it and while asserting that he was a “disciplined soldier” of the party said he would send his reply within the stipulated time once he received the notice. After Kirodi Lal Meena made the phone-tapping claim, the opposition Congress had raised the issue in the Rajasthan Assembly, causing embarrassment to the BJP government. The Congress had demanded Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma’s resignation over the allegation and Leader of the Opposition Tika Ram Jully did not even give a speech on the Governor’s address in protest. Congress MLAs kept raising slogans during the chief minister’s speech. In the show cause notice, the BJP said Kirodi Lal Meena’s statement tarnished the government’s reputation. “You are a member of the BJP and have been elected MLA from Sawai …