It’s been barely two months since Bharatiya Janata Party’s Biplab Deb was sworn in as the chief minister of Tripura but he has managed to stay in the news thanks to his ridiculous statements. A day after making unsavoury remarks against West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, Biplab Deb has made yet another obnoxious statement.
While addressing the inaugural event of a One Day Design Workshop at Prajna Bhavan in Agartala, the chief minister said that 1997 Miss World Diana Hayden was not worthy of being crowned beauty pageant contest winner.
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Aishwarya Rai (left) | Diana Hayden (right)
“I do not see or understand her beauty from miles apart,” he said, adding that he failed to understand the ‘process of judging’, reports North East Today.
He also said that the international fashion and design contest organisers in Paris are international ‘marketing mafia’ and do not subscribe to Indian standards.
He, however, praised Bollywood actor and 1994 Miss World winner, Aishwarya Rai, because according to him, she is an embodiment of Goddess Laxmi or Saraswati.
“Aishwarya Rai was crowned Miss World and that’s alright. She represents the Indian woman,” he said.
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Biplab Deb with BJP president Amit Shah | Source: Indian Express
His statements come a day after he suggested that Mamata Banerjee should visit a temple and then get her brain examined at a hospital. Last week, he triggered a laugh riot on social media after he said that internet existed during Mahabharata times.
“Many may decline the fact, but if the Internet was not there, how Sanjay, could see the war in Kurukshetra and describe it to Dhritarashtra? It means Internet was there, the satellites and that technology was there in this country at that time,” he had said.
