BRS demands putting-off Miss World pageant in war-like scenario in border areas
HYDERABAD
The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) has demanded that the State government cancel or postpone the Miss World Pageant being held in the city immediately, when people are worried about the possible increase in the prices of essential commodities following the war-like situation with neighbouring Pakistan and closures of airports and ports.
Addressing a press conference here on Saturday, BRS MLA and party Whip in the Assembly K.P. Vivekanand felt that it was the responsibility of Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy to allay any such apprehensions and fears among people instead of being busy with organising the beauty contest. He also faulted the statement of the Chief Secretary that holding the beauty pageant would be crucial for the State's economy.
Students from the State studying in the national educational institutions in Punjab and Jammu & Kashmir were willing to return home in the wake of escalation of security threat following the attempts of shelling, drone and missile attacks by Pakistan and it was for the Chief Minister to make arrangements for their safe return to the State.
Stating that BRS was not against the idea of the beauty pageants but they should be conducted in a cheerful atmosphere and not the war-like situation which the country was in right now following the terror attack on tourists in J&K and continuous artillery and other attacks by Pakistan in the border areas starting from J&K to Gujarat.
Only emergency services and not beauty contests must go on in war-like situations, Mr. Vivekanand said. Expressing solidarity with the armed forces for putting up a heroic fight to protect the country, he also paid tributes to Murali Naik who was martyred in the Pakistan shelling along the border.
Meanwhile, Mr. Vivekanand along with former ministers T. Harish Rao and C. Malla Reddy participated in a rally organised in the Malla Reddy Health City here expressing solidarity with the armed forces.
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