evidence: Bengaluru : Quoting an unnamed RSS member, Congress Lok Sabha member Shashi Tharoor on Sunday likened Prime Minister Narendra Modi to a scorpion seated on a Shivling. The comment sparked a sharp reaction from the BJP, prompting the MP to give a detailed explanation hours later. "Modi is like a scorpion sitting on a Shivling. You cannot remove him with your hand and you cannot hit it with a ‘chappal’ (slipper) either," said Tharoor at a literary event, recalling what an RSS member had told a journalist in 2012. [...] Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad condemned Tharoor’s remarks and said the Congress leader had disrespected Lord Shiva.