Beauty Pageant mafia in Sri Lanka

I was crowned to be sent as Miss Tourism ....
'My leg was broken before I went to China ...'
- Monali Dissanaike

An exposure about Beauty Pageant mafia

         Monali Dissanaike who was to represent Sri Lanka at the Miss World Contest was prevented from going abroad by the organisation and this injustice was exposed to us  by Monali. What she says is that a mafia operates at Sri Lankan Beauty Pageant contests. Those who function as organisations do not conduct any contest to select the winner and all the more they even go to the extent of taking money from the person actually sent and is involved in a racket by later giving the impression that certain NGOs make money by sending photos of the candidates abroad after holding a function here.

         She says that later the organisation concerned take steps to prevent the said contestant from going abroad by giving them false reasons. According to Monali, a false promise had been given to her of sending her to the Miss World contest this year in this manner and a function was held to this effect and had informed the representatives abroad that I was suffering from a damage caused to my leg and so withhold me from attending the contest. The exposure she released to the media in this connection is as follows:
            "They called me about a month ago and asked me whether I would like to participate if I was nominated for the Miss Tourism contest and also whether I would like to pay a sum of about 2 lakhs. They told me all this when I was at a Best Model Pageant and they further said that what fits me better is not modelling contests but Beauty Queen contests. They asked me to participate in such a contest and that they would give me the air ticket. So many people told me that though they give me the air ticket like that, that also is given by the money I give them. After that what they do is send bogus photos there giving the impression that a contest was held here. My friends told me that they send us after collecting our money while those abroad believe that a contest had been held here and that way they collect their money too. The married beauty queen Shrimali Fonseka also was supposed to have been asked to pay some 2000 or 200 dollars. When Nilu won her contest and came back, they had asked her some money from the 10 lakhs she got.

             My friends strongly advised me against my decision but I went ... telling them that I'd somehow or other find some sponsor. I was crowned at a party and was photographed as if it all was a genuine contest. The official crowning was held at a different Best Model contest. I was crowned on that day with photos being taken in the presence of the media. And after doing all that I was told to prepare my clothes. The visa interview too was given late. Though I was told that the flight ticket had arrived, I never saw it with my own eyes. Then, only last night I was called and told, 'Now they say that you have not practised properly ... so it's not possible for us to send you to China'. I then asked why I was nominated. Their reply was, 'No ... it's not that ... we're sending you with the definite idea of getting the title ... so now we'll be sending an e-mail to China saying that you have met with an accident'. They had already sent my photos there. They once again said, 'Forget about the Tourism Queen .... there is a Pageant in Tibet ... we'll send you there'. Actually the flight was scheduled for last night ... it was all of a sudden that they said something like this. I had arranged all my clothing with the designers and I was having so much hopes.

             Earlier also they had done things like this. It's because money is being remitted here from there asking them to hold the pageant here ... but what these people do is that they take that money and send photos from here as if a pageant was held here ... and once they have collected the money they wanted, they send those people there an e-mail telling all lies such as in my case. Apart from that  they arrange to give me a call by using someone from their side to frighten me saying that if I was sent ... acid will be splashed on me. But nothing like that has happened. They do that so that the impression is given that it was I myself who gave up the journey to China. Now the story had spread round that it was I who refused to go on my own.

            In any case I'll be informing China that I was not suffering from a broken leg. These people make agreements with the winners too, asking them not to attend parties other than their own. Getting friendly with a boy is also prohibited. Even during the entire period I had a connection, they asked me to stop it. Yesterday a friend of mine told me, that she was told that her boy friend was of the gay-type (homosexual).

           They are making plenty of money from this work ... I think from that Show they may have collected about 4 lakhs. They conduct Shows ... without giving even 5 cents to us ... saying it's to gain experience.
 The video of this statement by Monali, below