2019 Kaun Jitega: Shashi Tharoor quotes a 'source' to compare PM with scorpion

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."

The Congress leader was addressing an audience at Bengaluru Literature Festival on his recently launched book The Paradoxical Prime Minister: Narendra Modi And His India.