Delhi: Delhi High Court refusef to quash defamation case against Congress MP Shashi Tharoor over his alleged “scorpion on Shivling” remark against Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Tharoor sparked controversy he compared Prime Minister Narendra Modi to a scorpion sitting on a Shivling while speaking at the Bengaluru Literary Festival.
Tharoor claimed that an unnamed RSS leader had compared Prime Minister Narendra Modi to “a scorpion sitting on a Shivling”.
“Modi is like a scorpion sitting on a Shivling. You cannot remove him with your hand and you cannot hit it with a ‘chappal’ (slipper) either,” Tharoor said while recalling what an RSS member had told a journalist in 2012.
He said that there is an extraordinarily striking metaphor expressed by an unnamed RSS source to journalist Vinod Jose of ‘The Caravan’, who expressed their frustration with their inability to curb Modi. Tharoor also shared a tweet saying that the quote had been in public domain since 2012.
