Tharoor while addressing the audience at Bangalore literature festival had said that an unnamed RSS leader had compared PM Modi with “a scorpion sitting on a Shivling”.
New Delhi| A fresh trouble has mounted for senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor in response to the ‘Scorpion on Shivaling’ remark about PM Modi. Delhi BJP leader Rajeev Babbar has filed a criminal defamation case against Tharoor in Delhi court for his controversial remark. The court has scheduled the hearing on November 16.
Babbar accused Tharoor of hurting the sentiments of Shiva devotees. In the complaint, he said, “I am a devotee of Lord Shiva… However, the accused (Tharoor) completely disregarded the sentiments of crores of Shiva’s devotees, made the statement which hurt the sentiments of all the Lord Shiva devotees, both in India and outside the country.”
Tharoor while addressing the audience at Bangalore literature festival had said that an unnamed RSS leader had compared PM Modi with “a scorpion sitting on a Shivling”. His statement had stoked a lot of furore.
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