evidence: ‘Scorpion on a shivling’ comment: Delhi court grants bail to Shashi Tharoor for remark on Modi [...] A Delhi court on Friday granted bail to Congress MP Shashi Tharoor in connection with his remarks comparing Prime Minister Narendra Modi to a "scorpion sitting on a Shivling", which he had attributed to a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh leader, reported PTI. Tharoor was asked to deposit a personal bond of Rs 20,000. Speaking at the Bangalore Literature Festival in October last year, Tharoor had claimed Modi’s "personality cult" did not sit very well with many people in the RSS. He claimed there was an "extraordinarily striking metaphor" with which an RSS member expressed the organisation’s frustration with its "inability to curb Modi". He then cited the RSS functionary as saying: "Modi is like a scorpion sitting on a Shivling, you cannot remove him with your hand and you cannot hit it with a chappal either".