In October 2018, the Congress leader had stoked a controversy by invoking a news article where an unnamed Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh leader had compared Prime Minister Narendra Modi to a "scorpion sitting on a Shivling".
Tharoor claimed that this quote of the unnamed RSS source was quoted in a news article that he had read some years ago.
With an unexpected new turn in Kashmir, an ominous Afghanistan, a reliably unpredictable Trump, and an unfathomable reversal with RCEP, Modi may have to reinvent his character, suggests Ambassador B S Prakash.
'The Congress has finally drawn a line in the sand over its pro-poor credentials.'
'The rich better watch out.'
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