Veteran Congress leader Shashi Tharoor recently triggered a storm with ‘scorpion’ crack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and now he has stated that it is because of former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru that a ‘chaiwala’ is the PM these days.

At the re launch of his book, ‘Nehru: The invention of India’ addressing at an event in the national capital Delhi, the Congress MP from Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala stated that former Prime Minister Nehru created the institutional structures which make possible any Indian to aim to reach the highest office.

“If today we have a 'chaiwala' as Prime Minister, it's because Nehru ji made it possible to create the institutional structures through which any Indian can aspire to rise to the highest office in the land,” Tharoor was quoted by Zee News.

He expressed serious concerns about alleged anti-Nehru campaigns on social media platforms. The Congress MP stated that astonishing amount of lies are there on the web alleging that there’s a “consorted campaign of vilification, of calumny” in opposition to the country’s first Prime Minister.

Former Congress president Sonia Gandhi was also present on the occasion. She said that valuable legacy of Nehru is being damaged daily by those who rule us today. The UPA chair person also said that they express disdain for Nehru for all that he did to construct India that they are bent upon changing for worse.