evidence: Shashi Tharoor quotes 'source': 'For RSS, PM Modi like scorpion sitting on Shivling, can't be removed with hand or hit with chappal' [...] "There’s an extraordinarily striking metaphor expressed by an unnamed RSS source to a journalist... that 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 either," the Thiruvananthapuram MP said, adding that the metaphor highlights RSS' frustration with its inability to curb Narendra Modi. Drawing the controversial analogy, Tharoor said: "If you remove a scorpion with your hand, you'll get stung very badly. But if you hit a Shivling with a chappal then you have undermined all the sacred tenets of the faith that you hold in the scorpion that's sitting there."