Hyderabad: The 72nd edition of the Miss World pageant – Miss World 2025 is to be held at the HITEX Exhibition Centre in Hyderabad, Telangana, India on 31 May 2025. Recently, some contestants were on a cultural tour at the 800-year-old Ramappa Temple, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Telangana’s Mulugu district.
In a shocking display of servility, the Telangana Congress government made local women wash and wipe the feet of Miss World contestants, a humiliating act that reeks of colonial-era mindset. Further, this was done within the sanctity of the Ramappa Temple and in an area in close proximity to the place where the divine Goddesses Sammakka and Saralamma are revered. The Congress Government really should be ashamed that in a land where the valour of Rani Rudramma Devi is passed on from one generation to another, they have reduced the role of Telangana women to that of washing the feet of foreigners.
In a shocking display of servility, the Telangana Congress government made local women wash and wipe the feet of Miss World contestants, a humiliating act that reeks of colonial-era mindset. Further, this was done within the sanctity of the Ramappa Temple and in an area in close… pic.twitter.com/ha0xRrTCYr
— G Kishan Reddy (@kishanreddybjp) May 15, 2025
For millennia our civilisational ethos has anchored our interaction with guests around the idea of ‘ Athithi Devo Bhava’ ,that is, to treat the guest as divine. However, in the process of respecting the guest, it is unacceptable to lower the self-respect of our own women. The Miss World Platform gave a perfect opportunity to showcase our Indian culture and our hospitality in front of the contestants but the Telangana Government squandered this opportunity. It has degraded the self-respect of our women and the Bharatiya Janata Party strongly condemns the Congress government’s actions.
The Congress party’s century-old legacy of making Indians kneel before foreigners to appease their high command is evident. Chief Minister Revanth Reddy, in his desperate bid to impress Delhi bosses, has trampled on the dignity and self-respect of Indian women.
The Congress national leadership of Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi should tender an unconditional apology to the Telangana women for blasphemy and for surrendering the dignity, culture and self-respect of our Nari Shakti.
