Daughter of Auto-Rickshaw Driver Becomes Femina Miss India 2020 Runner-Up

MUMBAI: In what it could be a dream for a daughter of an autorickshaw driver whose aspiration to be a model finally come true after the results of the VLCC Femina Miss India 2020.

In one such inspiring story is of Manya Singh daughter of an autorickshaw driver Omprakash Singh from Uttar Pradesh who overcame innumerable struggles to bag the runner-up title of the prestigious Femina Miss India beauty pageant.

Manya was born in Uttar Pradesh's Kushinagar. Her parents and Manya worked hard to put herself through Lohiya Inter College in Sahwa, UP.

After completing her schooling, Manya joined Mumbai's Thakur College of Science and Commerce. Currently, she is preparing to pursue Management Studies as the Femina Miss India runner-up considers education as the 'strongest weapon.'

Meanwhile, Telangana's Manasa Varanasi won the title Femina Miss India 2020 while Manika Sheokand from Haryana bagged the Femina Miss Grand India 2020 title.

In a post shared by the official Instagram account of Femina Miss India in December 2020, Mansi described the hurdles she had to overcome for completing her studies. She used to study in the day and earned by washing dishes in the evening and working at a call centre at night.

According to Manya, her entry into the beauty pageant is to show the world that nothing is impossible if one is committed to their dreams and to uplift her family.

After her victory, Manya took to Instagram and shared a photograph of her parents where they are holding a newspaper with Manya's picture after she was crowned. Expressing her gratitude to her parents, she wrote 'I worship them' on her Instagram story.

Miss India or Femina Miss India is a national beauty pageant in India that annually selects representatives to compete in Miss World, one of the big four major international beauty pageants.

It is organised by Femina, a women's magazine published by The Times Group. Since 2013, Femina also organizes Miss Diva separately which sends representatives to Miss Universe.

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