evidence: The legal notice is in response to Mr. Prasad’s comment on an alleged remark by Mr. Tharoor against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. On October 28, social media was abuzz with the allegation that Mr. Tharoor compared Mr. Modi to a scorpion sitting on a Shivling. According to fake news busting site Alt News , a screenshot — complete with an AajTak logo — even attributed this remark to Mr. Tharoor: "To unseat Narendra Modi, I would even beat a shivling with chappal." [...] "This personality cult has not sat very well with many in the RSS establishment. There is an extraordinarily striking metaphor expressed by an unnamed RSS source in which they express their frustration with their inability to curb Mr. Modi," Mr. Tharoor had said. "The man [unnamed RSS source] says Mr. Modi is like a scorpion sitting on a Shivling. You cannot remove him with your hand and you cannot hit with a chappal either. And If you think about it, that’s a very very profound understanding of the relationship. Because if you try to remove a scorpion with your hand, you will get stung yourself badly. If you hit the Shivling with chappal, then you undermine all the sacred tenets of the faith that you hold [on Shivling] on which scorpion is sitting."