What is Uttar Pradesh, why is BJP angry on this post of Shashi Tharoor?

New Delhi: In the paper leak case, Congress MP and former Union Minister Shashi Tharoor shared a meme taking a dig at UP. BJP has criticized this post made by Shashi Tharoor to take a dig at the paper leak. Tharoor shared a viral post in which a question was asked that what is Uttar Pradesh? In the answer it is written that the state where the answer is known before the exam is called Uttar Pradesh. BJP has called this post of Shashi Tharoor an insult to the people of Uttar Pradesh.

Reacting to Tharoor’s post, Union Minister Jitin Prasada wrote, “I don’t see the humor in insulting my state and its people with such reprehensible comments. Such insult to UP is reprehensible and should be condemned in the strongest terms.” BJP spokesperson CR Kesavan said that Tharoor has done this before as well. he/she had made fun of the traditional dress of the people of the Northeast.
CR Kesavan said that to belittle a serious issue by saying that the state of UP is a state of cheaters is inexcusable and unpardonable. he/she said that the use of fancy words in English does not necessarily make one civilised and dignified. Former Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar, who lost against Shashi Tharoor from Thiruvananthapuram in the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections, said that shameless politics of shaming Indians – this is the Congress way.
UP minister AK Sharma replied to Shashi Tharoor and said that Congress has started insulting UP again as usual. Congress did not even thank the people of the state who gave life to Congress in UP properly and on the contrary, Congress is now insulting them. Tharoor’s sarcasm is a grave insult to the entire state and the countrymen.