Congress chief Shashi Tharoor’s dig on the BJP over the NEET-UG examination paper leak has attracted a backlash from BJP, with get together leaders accusing him of demeaning and misrepresenting the northern state.
Tharoor shared a submit on his social media deal with X which exhibits a query and reply in Hindi, “What known as Uttar Pradesh?” The response to the query was: “A state the place uttar (solutions) are identified earlier than the examination.”
Tharoor described the submit as “shandaar” and added the hashtag “Pariksha pe charcha” — a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s initiative to work together with college students.
शानदार! #परीक्षापेचार्चा pic.twitter.com/xXK8q54FWl
— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) June 22, 2024
Lashing out on the submit, BJP leaders slammed the Congress chief stating that there was no humor in stereotyping and insulting the state and its folks.
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Responding to Tharoor’s submit, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma wrote on his social media deal with X, “This gentleman regularly indulges in satirizing varied cultures (first Northeast and now UP) with remarkably caustic phrases. He has succumbed to the beguiling whispers of lunacy, his thoughts adrift within the ethereal mists of derangement.”
This gentleman regularly indulges in satirizing varied cultures (first Northeast and now UP) with remarkably caustic phrases.
He has succumbed to the beguiling whispers of lunacy, his thoughts adrift within the ethereal mists of derangement. https://t.co/aGuUU61bAy
— Himanta Biswa Sarma (@himantabiswa) June 23, 2024
Minister of State for Commerce and Business Jitin Prasada known as Tharoor’s remarks about Uttar Pradesh “deplorable,” expressing “I don’t see the humour in working down my state and its folks by stereotyping them with such condemnable remarks. Such an insult to UP is deplorable and have to be condemned within the strongest phrases,” he wrote in his submit X.
I don’t see the humour in working down my state and its folks by stereotyping them with such condemnable remarks. Such an insult to UP is deplorable and have to be condemned in strongest phrases.#uttarpradesh https://t.co/68tYuLFUFQ
— Jitin Prasada जितिन प्रसाद (@JitinPrasada) June 23, 2024
BJP chief Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore accused Shashi Tharoor of distancing himself from Uttar Pradesh and disrespecting it.
“Shashi, you having to resort to frivolity!! And in doing so condemning folks of a complete state? You don’t see UP as yours, since you might be deriding it. How I see Kerala is it’s my state, it’s my folks. Shiny, younger, dynamic Keralites have served with me within the Military and rubbed shoulders with me in ‘Workforce India’. When an individual of your stature and intelligence mocks a State, why wouldn’t others do? After which what!!” Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore wrote on his X submit.
Shameless crass politics of shaming different fellow Indians – thats the Congress means, ably demonstrated by this self-titled World citizen.🤬🤮
It was just some months in the past, one other of Cong “world residents” Pitroda described Indians as Africans, Chinese language, Center japanese and so on
Runs… https://t.co/YLsZ5U1zb5
— Rajeev Chandrasekhar 🇮🇳 (@RajeevRC_X) June 23, 2024
BJP spokesperson CR Kesavan labelled Tharoor a “repeat offender,” recalling his previous insults in direction of conventional apparel within the Northeast. “Shashi Tharoor is a repeat offender who had earlier gravely insulted our North East brothers and sisters by ridiculing their conventional apparel as outlandish. To belittle a severe challenge, implying that the state of UP is a state of cheaters is indefensible and unpardonable. Splattering fancy English phrases doesn’t essentially make one civil and dignified,” Kesavan stated.
Shashi Tharoor is a repeat offender who had earlier gravely insulted our North East brothers and sisters by ridiculing their conventional apparel as outlandish. To belittle a severe challenge, implying that the state of UP is a state of cheaters is indefensible and unpardonable.… https://t.co/4Odbeuml0P
— C.R.Kesavan (@crkesavan) June 23, 2024