evidence: Shashi Tharoor's 'Scorpion On Shivling' Remark Shows PM Modi's 'Invincibility': SC Stays Defamation Case [...] Delhi High Court had refused to quash defamation case against Congress MP Shashi Tharoor over his alleged "scorpion on Shivling" remark against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. [...] "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," Tharoor said while recalling what an RSS member had told a journalist in 2012.