RSS source said Modi is like a scorpion sitting on Shiv Linga: Tharoor

October 28, 2018 16:43

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has once again triggered a controversy a new analogy on Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Speaking at the Bengaluru Literature festival, Tharoor said he recalls an old news article where an "unnamed RSS source" had compared Modi with a scorpion sitting on a Shiv Linga.

"There's an extraordinarily striking metaphor expressed by an unnamed RSS source to a journalist. The RSS source said Modi is like a scorpion sitting on a Shiv Linga. You cannot remove him with your hand and you cannot hit it with a chappal (slipper) either," he said.

Tharoor claimed that this quote of the unnamed RSS source was quoted in a news article that he had read some years ago.

Elaborating on the metaphor, Tharoor said, "If you think about it, it is a very profound understanding of the relationship. If you remove a scorpion with your hand, you will get stung very badly. But if you hit a Shiv Linga with a slipper, you undermine all the sacred tenets of the faith you all know on which the scorpion is sitting on."

Tharoor said this may well be "an interesting clue" to the complex dynamics that exists between the Hindutva movement and the Moditva expression of it.

Meanwhile, Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad demanded an apology from Congress chief Rahul Gandhi.

"Rahul Gandhi, you claim yourself be to a Shiv bhakt (devotee). Please reply to this very horrific denunciation of Lord Mahadev," the minister said.

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