Activists of the BJP's youth wing defaced the office of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, police said, days after he sparked a row with remarks that the BJP, if voted to power again, will pave the way for creation of a "Hindu Pakistan". Members of BJYM raised slogans against Tharoor and poured black oil in front of his office.

"Today @YUVAMORCHABJP vandals attacked my constituency office in Thiruvananthapuram. They poured black engine oil on signs, doors, walls & gate, drove away innocent citizens waiting with their petitions, put up offensive banners & shouted slogans asking me to go to Pakistan," Tharoor tweeted.