@ Vikash Sharma | Sr Journalist
New Delhi: Delhi girl Shreya Poonja(22) , who was recently crowned as Femina Miss India 2023- 1st Runner-Up, received a warm welcome at Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi today. The beauty pageant finale was held in Imphal, Manipur.
Shreya’s family, her mother Bharti Poonja , and father Sanjay Poonja, her relatives, friends, and neighbours swarmed the airport to receive the beauty queen.
In the evening a home welcome is planned at Shreya’s Malviya Nagar residence. Shreya has a packed up week and she will be engaged in different events.
On arriving in her hometown -Delhi, which she has done proud, Shreya expressed gratitude to her parents and supporters for such a warm welcome. Shreya stated, “It has been a very emotional homecoming for me. I am overwhelmed with the love showered on me by my nears and dears. It is this encouragement which has made me reach this far. I particularly want to thank my parents for the faith they put in me and it is the result of this belief of my parents in my abilities that I was able to do so well at the pageant.”
Shreya is a pure Delhi bred girl, fun loving and fond of ‘Gol Gappas’. She has done her schooling from St. Anthony’s Senior Secondary School and graduation in Economics from Deshbandhu College.
