Scared to say I'm a Hindu in India: Tharoor, Kher spar on Twitter

It all started with with Anupam "Padma Bhushan" Kher telling Bhupendra Chaubey (remember him from the infamous Sunny Leone interview) that "I'm scared today to say openly that I'm a Hindu in India".

| I'm scared today to say openly that I'm a Hindu: @AnupamPkher to CNN-IBN's @bhupendrachaube in #TheHotSeat pic.twitter.com/U7JEme8zoH

— CNN-IBN News (@ibnlive) January 29, 2016

Senior Congress member and MP Shashi Tharoor took to the micro-blogging site to voice his opinion about the same:

Come on Anupam. I say it all the time. I'm a proud Hindu. Just not the Sangh's kind of Hindu. @AnupamPkher https://t.co/jLgKlYwL96

— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) January 30, 2016

The Bollywood actor Kher who has been in the news a lot, although, for completely non-film reasons took offence to Tharoor's tweet and said this:

Come on Shashi. Never thought you will misinterpret my statement like trolls do. And behave like a Congi Chamcha. https://t.co/SOD44ZPYvM

— Anupam Kher (@AnupamPkher) January 30, 2016

Tharoor had to remind Kher that he is a senior member of Parliament for the Congress party and not a "Congi chamcha" as Kher had proclaimed:

. Abuse, @AnupamPkher , is what you use when you run out of arguments. I'm a proud MP of @INCIndia &I don't resort to insults. #CongiChamcha

— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) January 30, 2016

Kher retorted:

Sadly, you forgot that you brought in your Kind of Hindu & Sanghi Hindu first. You want to categorize that also? https://t.co/I1aBObn5BY

— Anupam Kher (@AnupamPkher) January 30, 2016

And the debate rages on.

Kher, who has quite often been called as the "acting prime minister of India", amongst a host of other things, has been on the recieving end of a lot of jokes on social media. Seems like he has given the Twitteratti one more reason to laugh.

Tharoor 1-0 Kher. What do you think?