Jyoti Brahmin seeks to bury the past

<div class="section1"><div class="Normal">KOLKATA: The controversy over this year''s Miss India pageant seems to follow the three winners everywhere they go.<br /><br />But the lucky Jyoti Brahmin, who got the Miss India Earth crown after Laxmi Pandit was dropped, says despite the unfortunate incident, the contestant should not be maligned in public.<br /><br />Brahmin, here with the other two winners Tanushree Dutta and Sayali Bhagat, on a promotional tour for an F M radio station, said it was best to bury the past.<br /><br />"Past is past.It should not be raked up," Brahmin said when asked by a scribe how it felt to get the crown after Pandit was ousted following a debate on her marital status.<br /><br />Bogged by the question ever since her chance tryst with the crown, Brahmin said she had seen Pandit from very close quarters in the run up to the contest and respected her as an individual.<br /><br />"As an individual and a co-contestant, we all must give Laxmi due respect for the person she is," the 23-year-old Kolkata beauty, said.<br /><br /><formid=367815></formid=367815></div> </div>