TIL Desk/National/Bengaluru/Congress leader Shashi Tharoor stoked a fresh controversy on Sunday claiming that an unnamed Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh leader had compared Prime Minister Narendra Modi to “a scorpion sitting on a Shivling” and terming it as an extraordinarily striking metaphor.
As his comments at the Bangalore Literature Festival drew condemnation, including from Union minister Ravi Sankar Prasad, the MP tweeted saying the remarks were not made by him and were in the public domain for six years. In a stinging condemnation, Prasad, a senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader, alleged that Tharoor had disrespected Lord Shiva and sought an apology from Congress president Rahul Gandhi.
In his speech at the festival, Tharoor said “…There is an extraordinarily striking metaphor expressed by an unnamed RSS source to a journalist which I quote, in which they express their frustration with their inability to curb Mr Modi. “The man says Modi is like a scorpion sitting on a Shivaling. You cannot remove him with a hand and you cannot hit it with a chappal either,” he said.
