New Delhi: Congress leader and Member of Parliament from Thiruvananthapuram Shashi Tharoor on Sunday in his over 43-minute long speech at JNU campus compared the JNUSU president and sedition accused Kanhaiya Kumar to revolutionary Bhagat Singh.

Now, after the speech has gone viral on social media, Twitterati lashed out at Shashi Tharoor for the comparison.

Here are some of the tweets that have gone even more viral than Shashi Tharoor's speech:-

At the cost of repeating myself I must say @shashiTharoor IQ is lower than his shoe size ! https://t.co/wtdSc5SlJp — Paresh Rawal (@SirPareshRawal) March 21, 2016

Dear @ShashiTharoor , Bhagat Singh died to free India, while Kanhaiya is feeding his political ambitions on the freedom India gives him. FYI — The Bad Doctor (@DOCTORATLARGE) March 21, 2016

Shashi Tharoor has equated Kanhaiya Kumar to Shaheed Bhagat Singh

Time to equate Shashi Tharoor's IQ to Rahul Gandhi's — The Bad Doctor (@DOCTORATLARGE) March 21, 2016

Not surprised @ShashiTharoor compared Kanhaiya to Bhagat Singh. He probably thinks @OfficeOfRG is Einstein! — Shefali Vaidya (@ShefVaidya) March 21, 2016

Dear @ShashiTharoor, Bhagat Singh died trying to free the country. Kanhaiya Kumar is just fuelling his political ambitions. #NoComparisons — Yudhajit Dutta (@YudhajitDutta) March 21, 2016

Shashi Tharoor compares kanahiya to bhagat singh,Tharur must know he & kanahiya r not worthy even to be compared with bhagat singh slippers — Piyush Anand (@piyush2987) March 21, 2016

Shashi Tharoor whn ur comparing Bhagat Singh with Kanhaiya.

U have all the rights to Compare Ishrat Jahan with Sonia Gandhi. — Pradeep Kumar (@pradeepkm2272) March 21, 2016

What is happening to the intellectuals of India. Award returnees n Shashi tharoor like people have lost their mental balance. Shocking!!!! — MAHESH PATEL (@333_mahesh) March 21, 2016

By comparing Kanhaiya to Bhagat Singh, Shashi Tharoor trying to say that Bhagat Singh is a traitor, Will @HMOIndia look or just chaos ? — Pari Chawla (@MumbaiDiKudi) March 21, 2016

Somewhere in the afterlife Sukhdev, Rajguru are laughing their asses off trolling Bhagat Singh after Shashi Tharoor's comparison — The UnReal Times (@TheUnRealTimes) March 21, 2016

Shashi Tharoor compares kanhaiyya Kumar to Bhagat Singh.

Okay the Rahul Gandhi effect is finally showing on Tharoor too. — Amit.A (@Amit_smiling) March 21, 2016

it appears Shashi Tharoor is spending too much time with Rahul gandhi. His idiocity is infectious... — Akash Kumar (@desiRadar) March 21, 2016

Sometimes intelligent makes a fool out of himself and this is what Shashi Tharoor did in JNU by comparing Kanhaiya with Shaheed Bhagat Singh — SHISHIR (@KAPOORSHISHIR) March 21, 2016