Court issues summons to Shashi Tharoor over his 'scorpion' remark on PM Modi
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Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has been summoned by Delhi's Rouse Avenue Courton June 7 for his alleged "scorpion" remark against PM Modi.
Tharoor had stirred up a controversy in October last year after he had claimed that an unnamed RSS source had told a journalist that Prime Minister Modi was like a scorpion sitting on a Shiv Linga who cannot be removed by hand or hit with a chappal (slipper).
Speaking at the Bengaluru Literature Festival in October, Tharoor had said, "There's an extraordinarily striking metaphor expressed by an unnamed RSS source to a journalist, who expressed their frustration to curb Modi - 'Modi is like a scorpion sitting on a 'shivling'. You can't remove him with your hand and you cannot hit it with a 'chappal'(slipper) either."
Tharoor had made theremarksat the launchof his book "The Paradoxical Prime Minister: Narendra Modi And His India" at the Bengaluru Literature Festival.
(With inputs from ANI)