{"id":21637,"date":"2018-10-30T20:03:03","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T14:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=21637"},"modified":"2019-03-19T20:10:03","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T14:40:03","slug":"will-hit-even-a-shivling-with-chappal-to-remove-modi-fake-quote-ascribed-to-shashi-tharoor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/will-hit-even-a-shivling-with-chappal-to-remove-modi-fake-quote-ascribed-to-shashi-tharoor\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Will hit even a shivling with chappal to remove Modi’ – Fake quote ascribed to Shashi Tharoor"},"content":{"rendered":"

“\u0928\u0930\u0947\u0902\u0926\u094d\u0930 \u092e\u094b\u0926\u0940 \u0915\u094b \u0939\u091f\u093e\u0928\u0947 \u0915\u0947 \u0932\u093f\u090f \u0936\u093f\u0935\u0932\u093f\u0902\u0917 \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u092d\u0940 \u091a\u092a\u094d\u092a\u0932 \u092e\u093e\u0930\u0928\u0940 \u092a\u095c\u0940 \u0924\u094b \u092e\u0948\u0902 \u092e\u0930\u0942\u0902\u0917\u093e (Even if I have to hit a Shivling with a chappal in order to remove Narendra Modi, I would do it -translated)”<\/em> is a statement ascribed to Congress MP Shashi Tharoor in a purported screen grab from an Aaj Tak<\/em> broadcast. This image was circulated by a Facebook page, I Support Narendra Bhai Modi Bjp<\/a><\/em> (formerly known as Bjp All India<\/em>), which Alt News<\/a> had exposed as a constant source of misinformation. At the time of writing this article, the aforementioned post was shared close to 3500 times.<\/p>\n

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Several social media users had also shared this image on Facebook<\/a>. An individual post in the Facebook group, BJP Social Media<\/em><\/a> with more than 7 lakh members was shared more than 4000 times.<\/p>\n

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Facebook pages like \u092b\u093f\u0930 \u090f\u0915 \u092c\u093e\u0930 \u092e\u094b\u0926\u0940 \u0938\u0930\u0915\u093e\u0930<\/em><\/a> and BJP Khargone Barwani<\/em><\/a> had also circulated this same image which has accumulated a combined share count above 3600.<\/p>\n

Statement not made by Tharoor
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Alt News had reported how Shashi Tharoor<\/a> was ridiculed by Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad for an analogy comparing Prime Minister to a scorpion sitting on a shivling<\/em>. While speaking at Bangalore Literature Festival on October 28, Shashi Tharoor had quoted an unnamed RSS source from a 2012 article of The Caravan<\/a><\/em> “There is an extraordinarily striking metaphor expressed by an unnamed RSS source to the journalist Vinod Jose of The Caravan which I quote here. In which they expressed their frustration in their inability to curb Modi. And the man says Mr. Modi is like a scorpion sitting on a shivling, you cannot remove him with your hand and you cannot hit it with a chappal either.”,<\/em>\u00a0he said. The aforementioned context is suffice to conclude that the statement ascribed to Tharoor in the screen grab is completely false.<\/p>\n

In a video clip<\/a> of the same news channel, a similar visual can be seen without the viral quote falsely ascribed to Tharoor.<\/p>\n