‘Narendra Modi like scorpion sitting on Shivling’: Shashi Tharoor says remark ‘by RSS source’ in public for 6 years
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BJP today hit out at Congress leader Shashi Tharoor over his derogatory remarks on Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Talking to reporters in New Delhi, party leader and Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad asked Congress chief Rahul Gandhi to clarify if supported Mr Tharoor’s comments.
He said the Congress claims to represent the heritage of Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi and today, under the leadership of Rahul Gandhi the opposition party has been reduced to hurling abuses and the worst form of civil discourse.
Earlier Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has stirred up a controversy with a new analogy on Prime Minister Narendra Modi — one that he attributed to an “RSS source” of a journalist. Speaking at an event in Bengaluru, Mr Tharoor, whose book on PM Modi was recently released, said the “personality cult” of the Prime Minister did not sit well with many in the RSS establishment. The ideological mentor of the BJP, he said, also found it “extremely difficult” to “curb” PM Modi.
There’s an “extraordinarily striking metaphor”, he said, in which the RSS expressed their “profound frustration with their inability to curb Mr Modi – and the man says ‘Mr Modi is a like a Scorpion sitting on a Shivling. You cannot move it with your hand and you cannot hit it with a chappal either’.”
This comment (not by me) has been in the public domain for six years. RSPrasad making an issue of a 6yr old quote shows how little new the BJP has to offer the nation. As for media subserving the BJP’s desire for “controversy”, when will this “profession”develop any self-respect? https://t.co/RF8xxQLjzq
— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) October 28, 2018