New Delhi: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Sunday came under fire on the social media after a tweet on newly-crowned Miss World 2017 Manushi Chhillar's surname, in which he compared her with 'loose change'.
"What a mistake to demonetise our currency! BJP should have realised that Indian cash dominates the globe: look, even our 'Chhillar' (loose change) has become Miss World!," Tharoor tweeted.The Congress leader got flak from the National Commission for Women, which demanded an apology from him for 'degrading Manushi's achievement'.
'NCW condemn the tweet of INC India leader Tharoor. He degraded the achievement of daughter of Haryana and India who brought glory to the country. Will he call his own daughter chillar? He must apologize immediately. 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 country by winning MissWorld crown," the NCW said.However, after he hot flak for his remarks, Mr Tharoor again took to Twitter , clarifying that "no offence was meant" to Manushi.
"Guess the pun IS the lowest form of humour, 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.
Manushi Chhillar became the sixth Indian woman to be crowned Miss World, after Reita Faria (1966), Aishwarya Rai (1994), Diana Hayden (1997), Yukta Mookhey (1999) and Priyanka Chopra(2000).
The 20-year-old medical student wowed the judges and the audience with her beauty, charm and intelligence and bagged the prestigious title for India after 17 years at the Miss World event in Sanya, China. While Chhillar won the Head to Head and the Beauty with a purpose challenges of the Miss World competition, she also impressed the judges with her intelligence. (UNI)