BJP should have realised even our ” Chhillar” has become Miss World : Shashi Tharoor
NEW DELHI : Congress MP Shashi Tharoor had to face the ire of angry Twitter users after his joke about the newly crowned Miss World 2017 Manushi Chhillar did not go down well with them. With the joke, the MP tried to target the BJP government for demonetisation.
“What a mistake to demonetise our currency. BJP should have realised that Indian cash dominates the globe: look, even our Chhillar has become Miss World,” the Thiruvananthapuram MP wrote on micro-blogging site, apparently punning on the word ‘chillar’, which in Hindi means ‘loose change’.
20-year-old Manushi Chhillar is the sixth Indian to win the Miss World title. The last Indian to bag the title was Priyanka Chopra, who wore the crown in 2000.Manushi, who won both the Head to Head challenge and the Beauty with a purpose segment of the Miss World competition, impressed the judges with her final answer as well.
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor’s attempt to attack the Centre over demonetisation using the surname of new Miss World Manushi Chhillar has backfired. Condemning Tharoor’s comment, the National Commission for Women on Sunday issued a summon him over his ‘derogatory’ remark. It also demanded that he should apologise for allegedly degrading the achievement of Chhillar.
“NCW India will summon Shashi Tharoor to commission on his derogatory and degrading tweet on our pride Manushi Chhillar. She got fame and name to the country by winning Miss World crown,” the commission said on Twitter. Accusing Tharoor of degrading the achievement of Chhillar, a medical student who hails from Haryana, the NCW asked whether the Congress leader will call his own daughter a “chillar”. “He must apologise immediately,” it said.
Meanwhile, Tharoor apologised, stressing that no offence was meant to the “bright young girl”. “Guess the pun is the lowest form of humour and the bilingual pun lower still. Apologies to the many who seem to have been righteously offended by a light-hearted tweet today. Certainly no offence was meant to a bright young girl whose answer I’ve separately praised. Please, chill,” he tweeted.
India’s Chhillar on Saturday won the coveted Miss World 2017 crown at a grand event in China. The 20-year-old from Haryana, who is a medical student, edged out top five contestants from England, France, Kenya and Mexico at the event, which saw participation from 118 countries. Chhillar was presented the crown by Stephanie Del Valle, the last year’s Miss World winner from Puerto Rico at an event held at a resort in the coastal city of Sanya. The first and the second runners-up were Miss England Stephanie Hill and Miss Mexico Andrea Meza at the event.
(With PTI inputs)
