New Delhi: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor’s office in Thiruvananthapuram was vandalised today by the youth wing activists of the BJP, police said. The saffron party has been lashing out at Tharoor for the last few days after he said that the BJP, if voted to power again, will rewrite the constitution and pave the way for creation of a “Hindu Pakistan”.

The Congress Lok Sabha member from the Kerala capital said the BJP and “Sanghi goondas” orchestrated the incident.

1/2 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. — Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) July 16, 2018

“We have all been warned. The BJPs answer to the simple question have you given up the dream of a Hindu Rashtra? is apparently vandalism & violence. That is the face they have shown in Thiruvananthapuram today. Most Hindus will say these Sanghi goondas do not represent us,” he wrote on Twitter.

According to the Indian Express, those who vandalised Tharoor’s office also tied a banner that said “Hindu Pakistan” office outside it. Tharoor was not in office when the incident occurred.

Thiruvananthapuram BJP chief S. Suresh told the newspaper said the incident was a protest against a wrong statement. “This protest took place as Tharoor is the Lok Sabha member from here and hence this is nothing but a natural protest because of his erroneous statement,” he said.

The Congress had distanced itself from Tharoor’s “Hindu Pakistan” remark made at an event on Thursday, while the BJP sought an apology from party president Rahul Gandhi for the “attack on Indian democracy and Hindus” by the MP. A petition has also been filed in a Kolkata court on the matter, with petitioner Sumeet Chowdhury saying the leader’s comments were “a deliberate and malicious act ”, “intended” at “outraging” religious feelings.

(With PTI inputs)