Hyderabad:
Washing and wiping the ft of Miss World 2025 contestants by girls from Telangana earlier than their entry right into a temple has triggered outrage with the opposition BRS and BJP terming it an insult to the self-respect of Telangana.
The ft of contestants from 109 international locations had been washed and wiped by girls volunteers earlier than their entry into the traditional Ramappa temple within the Mulugu district on Wednesday.
The go to of contestants to the temple, a UNESCO World Heritage web site, was a part of the continuing magnificence pageant.
Nationwide Insult ❗️
Purple carpet for foreigners.
Purple face for Indian girls.The Telangana authorities made Indian girls wash the ft of Miss World contestants after which wipe them with towels.
Is that this girls empowerment or royal servitude?”తెలంగాణ మహిళలు అంటే ఇంత చులకనా❓
తెలంగాణ… pic.twitter.com/nqfGUl7YaO
— YSR (@ysathishreddy) May 14, 2025
The video of this went viral on social media, drawing the ire of many. Some referred to as this act ‘colonial’ and ‘racist’.
Union Minister for Coal and Mines G. Kishan Reddy termed it a humiliating act that reeks of a colonial-era mindset.
“In a stunning show of servility, the Telangana Congress authorities made native girls wash and wipe the ft of Miss World contestants, a humiliating act that reeks of a colonial-era mindset. Additional, this was finished throughout the sanctity of the Ramappa Temple and in an space in shut proximity to the place the place the divine Goddesses Sammakka and Saralamma are revered,” mentioned Kishan Reddy, who can also be the state BJP president.
“Congress get together’s century-old legacy of creating Indians kneel earlier than foreigners to appease their excessive command is obvious. Revanth Reddy, in his determined bid to impress Delhi bosses, has trampled on the dignity and self-respect of Indian girls,” he mentioned in his submit on ‘X’.
“The Congress nationwide management of Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi ought to tender an unconditional apology to Telangana girls for blasphemy and for surrendering the dignity, tradition and self-respect of our NariShakti,” Kishan Reddy added.
Most important opposition Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) has slammed the Congress authorities saying it shattered Telangana’s self-respect. BRS leaders appealed to Congress chief Sonia Gandhi to intervene.
BRS leaders alleged that native Dalit, tribal, and economically deprived girls had been pressured to clean and wipe the ft of overseas magnificence pageant members.
In a letter to Sonia Gandhi, former ministers and public representatives from the BRS urged her to intervene instantly to revive the dignity of the state’s girls and deal with the mounting public discontent.
The BRS leaders, together with former ministers Sabitha Indra Reddy, Satyavati Rathod, Sunita Laxma Reddy, and MLA Kova Laxmi, demanded an apology from Chief Minister Revanth Reddy.
The BRS leaders expressed profound anguish over what they termed a “disgraceful and humiliating act”, accusing the Congress authorities of insulting Telangana’s girls and tarnishing the state’s cultural heritage.
They referred to as on Sonia Gandhi to make sure the Chief Minister points an unconditional public apology to Telangana’s girls and takes corrective measures to stop additional erosion of the state’s delight.
The letter warns that such actions, if unaddressed, threat alienating Telangana’s 4 crore individuals and will spark a fierce backlash from the state’s girls in opposition to the Congress get together.
(Aside from the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV employees and is revealed from a syndicated feed.)
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