Re: Complains and concerns regarding Miss Nepal US(A) 2012

We had to remove the first post because some people were just doing personal attacks to the choreographer Sarah Gurung Tetsuka. But this was originally written by the contestants and their guardians. She is one of the witness and is supporting us.


On the behalf of the participants and their family of Miss Nepal US(A) 2012, this letter kindly invites your attention to the misconduct and the false advertisement of the Miss Nepal US(A) event in 2012. The event was poorly and unfairly executed which also includes threatening the health of the participants due to improper housing conditions, failure of accommodation of food on time and lack of immediate medical direction when needed.

Miss Nepal US(A) was not conducted as advertised to us contestants. The first false advertisement started off with the number of finalists they allowed to participate in the program. The organizers had claimed that they would only have 20 finalists; however they ended up the event with 28 finalists in order to gain the additional $8000 from the eight extra finalists. They also made a false announcement claiming to have more than 100 applicants to get the media attention but they only had 28 applicants. To our shock, despite Mr. Amit Shah (The CEO) and other organizers being aware of the fact that one of the applicants was married in Nepal, still choose to include her as one of the finalist which is absolutely against their own requirement clearly reflects the lack of integrity of the organization.

Additionally, the whole training schedules were diverted to go around places in order to advertise for the organizer sponsors instead of providing the training that were promised during the application. . The participants’ were sometimes fed at a gas station and the hotel that the participants had to stay in had bed bugs.One of the contestants had to participate in the finale with a swollen face due to lack of treatment on time. Similar case also occurred to another finalist, when the second day of training, the contestants had to get their blood drawn for the life insurance policy which in fact was unnecessary for all the participants to go through as the insurance was only for the winners one of the contestant has a swollen and bruised antecubital space which wasn’t addressed by the organizers until after a week.

Despite these outlined issues, each contestant considered the organizers’ everyday apologies and forgave in hopes of a grand finale as promised even when some of these issues were directly affecting participants well being. Unfortunately, the Grand finale of Miss Nepal US(A) 2012 turned out to be an incomplete, poor and disastrous event to the participants as well as the audiences. However, the audacity of the organizers to advertise the event as a success highlighted the organizers lack of accountability and their intention to deceive future participants through false advertisement, which reinforces the fact that the whole pageant is nothing but a scam.

The finale was an incomplete event, which was executed poorly and unfairly. The show started more than 2 hours late and ended abruptly without completing the rounds that the participants were trained to be judged from. After the first round (cultural round), the organizers decided to change the whole time schedule for the show due to the lateness of the program. Due to this, all the work that went into practicing and perfecting the choreography was put in vain as all the rounds were cut shorter or canceled as mentioned earlier. Also due to the cancelation of certain choreographies, many of the items which were required purchase by the contestants were not put to use. But this was not the end of mismanagement; one after the other the program took a new toll. As witnessed by the event choreographer, Sarah Gurung, two members of the organizing committee, Mr Sarad Yuvraj Singh and Sailesh Shresta had taken the score sheets and manipulated it with new tallied numbers and made up a Top ten list without even adding up the scores given by the judges present.

At the same time, even though the CEO of Miss Nepal, Mr Amit Shah was aware of this, he was not concerned about the actions of the two member of the organizing committee, instead he was more concerned about finishing the show on time due to the lateness of the show. And after the top ten finalists were asked individual questions, the final winners were announced based off of 10 different individualized questions and answers. How was it even possible to choose the top 3 based on 10 different questions? Moreover, on the website it clearly states that “The winner for this beauty pageant will be chosen based on their personality, overall attitude, public speaking skills, talent and their ability to form intellectual opinions on issues of national and international concern ask by jury”.

Now the main issue was that the judges were called upon the stage within minutes after the top ten questions were asked to award the winners. This raises a huge question on the authenticity of the results as it is quite impossible to do the calculations for 10 different contestants from 10 different judges in such a short period of time. They did not make this transparent at all as the score sheet was just being passed around from the judges to the organizers not in front of the audience like it should have been but behind the curtain and the winners were announced promptly.

Apart from these, there were several audiences who spent $100 dollars for their VIP ticket, which was promised to include a red carpet entrance, a meal, and on site voting for their favorite contestant but none of those actually happened. This whole event was indeed a big scam.

After the event when the participants tried contacting the CEO Mr. Amit Shah asking for clarifications, he just said how he believes that some team members took advantage of the situation and that he thinks that the mistake was in judges’ selection as some of the judges had no clue. It is even worse that instead of accepting his mistakes he was blaming such respected personalities.

The Participants always respected the team members like their own family but it is disgusting to find out that one of the organizers Sailesh Shrestha whom they treated like a brother had to be taken out of one of the contestants room drunk when she complained to the choreographer and they had to use the Bikrant Shrestha's ( official photographer) help to get him out of the room. Apart from that, he called several participants and choreographer Sarah Gurung many times in the middle of the night and when he was being ignored he started calling from private numbers.

During the night before the finale, a party was organized for the contestants and the staff. Even though the organizers were well aware of the underage participants, alcoholic beverages were being served. When the event choreographer, Sarah Gurung, requested alcohol to be excluded, the event manager Sarad yuvraj Singh and Sailesh Sherestha, disputed and instead replied by saying, “we need to have alcohol and dance and put up pictures on social media to show how fun and exciting it is to be part of Miss Nepal US(A).” In other words, the party was held in order to falsely advertise the organization, even if it meant to let the underage contestants drink without parental consent.

Miss Nepal US(A) claimed to serve as a platform for youths to promote the richness of Nepali culture and reward the hidden talents. But in contrary, they used us a medium to put on a show and make money. They cared less about the effort and dedication we put into it. Even though some of us did make it to the Top 10 finalist and some of us did receive a subtitle, due to the planned out winners and title holders by the organizers, we are not fully satisfied for there were other contestants who were more deserving. 

After hearing all that, we are hopeful that you have come to understand our situation. Even after all this it is a shame that the same organizing committee is yet doing another year of Miss Nepal US(A) with even more false advertisement and enticing offers and prizes. Knowing all this, our dignity and pride doesn’t allow us to let this happen again and let another single fellow Nepali female go through the same road of distrust and misery that we did.

Once again, we are not against Miss Nepal US(A) or the previous winners, we do believe that it can work as a great platform to uplift Nepali culture and encourage youths if organized by the right team but we absolutely cannot trust the same organizing team that includes members like Sailesh Shrestha and Sarad Yuvraj Singh. Please boycott this event to prevent these unfortunate events and stop the ill witted people from doing the same thing and exploiting more Nepali women.

We would heartily like to thank you for your patience and lending us your ears and time all along. We are extremely hopeful that you would help us in this matter.

Also, it has come to our knowledge that they were begging some of the girls to just participate for free because they were desperately in need of participants. And some of the contestants even received calls from the organizers saying if we can get some girls to participate they will at least get a title for sure ! And not to our surprise only 16 people applied this year and they are all selected as finalists but just wanted to warn all the contestants, families and sponsors.Even after knowing all this if you still would like to participate or send your daughters we can't really do anything.


Barsha Moktan (Top 10 Finalist)
Sadikshya Silwal (Top 10 Finalist)
Srajeena Joshi (Top 10 Finalist)
Swikriti Khanal
Roshni Gurung (Subtitle- Best Dress)
( and other girls who will reveal their names if necessary)

I admire all of yours courage to go ahead and put forward your names, but it was really not necessary. 

Also, you should have kept the original post.

Mister: Thank you for the positive response. I know we should have kept it but some people were attacking our choreographer personally and we didn't want to hurt her when she is just trying to support us. 

The defendents (if you were to file a lawsuit) :
Sailesh Shrestha
Amit Shah (The CEO)
Bikrant Shrestha

If they have jobs, what do they do for a living when not organizing such beauty pageant events?
Did you guys do a background check on these individuals before writing that $1000 check as participation fee?
It should cost less than $50-100 for such investigation.

Looks like you guys already have bunch of people on your side. You can organize yours own beauty pageant something like " miss Nepal north america". There are already miss world, miss USA, miss teen etc, why not just another name for same thing.

Also if one of you must have pictures/videos of underage drinking in the last event, you could easily report them to authority, at least local authority who can block their events and prosecute them.

Great insight!

This needs to be published in paper or online as news rather than just being as blog.

MissNepalUS(A)

Terms and Conditions

I understand that all final right to organize the event reserved to organizing committee and organizer, in its sole discretion, retains the right to alter the format of audition, contestant selection, training, jury selection, and winner’s judgments as well as the formats of final event.


Did you see the key word..Contestant Selection .......
 
That means  THEY CAN DECIDE TO PUT 8 MONTH PREGNANT WOMAN, DIVORCE, LESBIAN, MARRIED..WHOMEVER THEY WANT..


PEOPLE NEED TO SHUT UP!!!!!!!

SexyWithDari

Don't be stupid and copy paste this years terms and conditions. Last year they did not have that statement. They learned from last years fiasco and put that statement this year knowing that they will screw up and this disclaimer will supposedly protect them.

 geetmaijawaafdeu? It seems like you are confused, Bikrant Shrestha was just helping get Sailesh Shrestha out of the room as Sarah Gurung was unable to do it on her own. Just another eye witness. But thanks for the suggestion. Thats not a bad idea at all !

 Kairey- Thanks for your suggestion as well !

 Pirka - We are working on that too !
 Sexy in Sari - Like bokaman said this is from this years terms and conditions, last year the terms and conditions didn't mention that. In fact they changed it right after the event happened. And its Miss Nepal US(A) not Mrs Nepal so I don't think it would make sense to have a married contestant participating. They only had 16 applications this year so i bet they would take anyone at this point !

 gotta boycott such kinda events where organizers couldn't handle properly and appropriately. They played with others emotions specially those girls who were pretty and talented like Barsa, Srajeena and Roshani who didn't win any tittle. This event i believe messed up their head and made them feel like nothing when in reality they were better. Choreography was good and Sarah knows the drill which she nailed it. Further, Nepali girls are only good at kictchen anyways so we guys, specially me, don't wana see any Nepali chicks walking on the ramp  and shaking their little butt which don't even make sense to me.

 Out of all i have a Question to ask all those participents who are fighting for and against it, ये बाबा , तिमि हरु लाइ एस्तो गरेर मोदेलिंग गरेर ramp  मा हिडेर बस्नु थियो भने के खान अमेरिका आको ? नेपाल मै बसेर गर्या भए हुन्थो , college को २७०० फी तिर्न कति गारो छ येहा हाम्लाई थाहा छ , अझ भित्र state मा बसेर summer मा ocean city  गएर मरिमेटेर काम गरेर बल्ल बल्ल पैसो जम्मा गरेर  पदने नेपाली नारि हरु  कति छन् छन् , तिमि हरु लाइ चै पैसो बडी भाको ? १००० तिरेर ramp मा नाङ्गो हिड्न जान पर्ने !! काम मा एक दिन पद्न को लागि छुट्टि लिन कति गारो छ !! सौ को कति भनाइ सुन्न पर्छ, तिमि हरु लाइ  चै १०-१५ दिन छुट्टि लिएर गएर होटेल मा बसेर नाटक गरेर बस्ने फुर्सद छ !! modeling भनेको अमेरिका होस् या नेपाल जहाँ नि तेइ हो .. प्रायोजक ले शोषण गर्ने , आफ्नो मान्छे लाइ priority दिने , छोटा छोटा लुगा लगाएर हिड्न लाउने !!! अनि आइले आएर येहा एस्तो भो उस्तो भो भनेर गाइ जात्रा !!

as a participant of 2012 i wanna say something again @ Sadikhya Silwal - from what i saw werent you the one who was crying and hugging organizer sarad singh and saying "dai show ramro bhayo, i am so sorry if we made any mistakes, you have taught so much" ?? i was sitting right there... so now what happened? show bhako bela ma chahi kasile kehi bhanenan.. they did ask us if everything is ok and if we were having any issues..  at that time everyone of us were like "oh you guys are the best organizers, we love you and thank you so much for this". There is no one to blame but us... Again, grand finale in 2012 late suru hunu bahneko reason is the MC. She came 2 hours late because Sarah Gurung was personally trying to Rig the event and you know how i know this is because i heard their entire conversation ... 
One more thing.. they are humans and they made  mistakes.. we have to look at what they are doing and if they are correcting those mistakes.. i learnt so much from this event.. gave me a platform to be recognized globally.. the organizers have tried this year tried to correct those mistakes and have come out publically saying " We understand and honestly admit that due to various situations and circumstances, Miss Nepal US might have fallen short of expectations in past years, but rest assure that we always wanted to thrive for the best for each and every participant and guests." 

check out these link and see for yourselves that they are trying to make it better this year.. AS A FORMER PARTICIPANT I FULLY SUPPORT THEM THIS YEAR... .

http://www.missnepalus.com/admin/pages/newsletter/news_preview_pop_up.php?news_id=9

http://missnepalus.com/titlenawards.php

I 100% agree with facebook.

खै जाठो आफूलाई त केहि लेख्न पनि मन लाग्न छाडेछॅ। तैपनी यस पालिका राँँँडहरूलाई पनि अग्रीम बधाई ॥

Simplegirl: Honey, let me remind you that it was actually Sadikshya Silwal alone who confronted the entire team of organizers to question about what they did. Obviously no one had any answers. Yes, we all were crying and were

@ simplegirl
" i learnt so much from this event.. gave me a platform to be recognized globally"

ReAlly?? Platform to be recognized GLOBALLY....oh well, no comment..just LMAO !!

Men and women are equal .... All miss Nepal usa were

 Here we go agin With tis tabloid talk !! Shut the fug up, We do not need this BULLSHIT !! Oh yeah your ego is a lil bruised.. hehe what the fug did you expect(going into such contest, you thought CoCo Chanel was going to pick you up as a model ? or maybe the ford Modelling agency) ? We do not need to know who did what and when.. just keep it to yourself. No need to wash your dirty laundry in public.