Navneet Kaur Rana

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Navneet Kaur Rana (also known as Navneet Ravi Rana) is an Indian politician and former actress, primarily known for her work in Telugu cinema. She was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) from Amravati in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections as an independent candidate. In the 2024 elections, she contested from the same constituency on a BJP ticket but lost to Congress candidate Balwant Wankhede by a margin of 19,731 votes..[1][2]

Film career

Kaur was born and brought up in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.[3] Her parents are of Punjabi origin of Ravidassia Caste;[4] her father was an army official.[5][6] She completed her studies up to 10th standard in Karthika High School, Kurla (Mumbai). After finishing 12th class, she discontinued her education and began working as a model, going on to appear in six music videos.[7] Kaur made her feature film debut in "Darshan" a Kannada film.[3] Then followed her debut in Telugu with Seenu Vasanthi Lakshmi (2004). Chetna (2005), Jagapathi (2005), Good Boy (2005), and Bhuma (2008) are some of her subsequent releases. Additional works include Kalachakram, Terror, Flash News and Jabilamma which was remake of Hindi film Chameli in Telugu. She was a contestant in the Gemini TV reality show named Humma Humma. She starred in the Malayalam film Love In Singapore, directed by Rafi Mecartin. In 2010, she acted in the Punjabi film Lad Geya Pecha opposite Gurpreet Ghuggi.

Political career

After the marriage with Ravi Rana, she stood unsuccessfully as a Nationalist Congress Party candidate in the 2014 Lok Sabha Election.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

She was elected as an MP from Amravati,[8] Maharashtra constituency in Lok Sabha Elections 2019 as an Independent candidate, with support of Indian National Congress and Nationalist Congress Party defeating Anandrao Adsul of Shiv Sena. In this election as an independent candidate, she has spent Rs.65 Lakh while the previous two times MP, Adsul has spent Rs.49 Lakh for a democratic process.[9]

On various level (i.e. local, regional and national; in public or, in various institutions like Lok Sabha) she is seen to have altercation with Shiv Sena and its party members time-to-time.[10][11][12]

Joining BJP

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Campaign of Navneet Rana in General Elections 2024.

She joined the Bharatiya Janta Party on 28 March 2024 and contested from Amravati Lok Sabha constituency as a BJP candidate in the 2024 general elections but lost the seat to Balwant Baswant Wankhade of Indian National Congress.[13][14]

Controversy

On 8 June 2021, the High Court of Bombay fined her Rs. 2 lakh, for submitting a fake Mochi caste certificate.[15] The court cancelled her caste certificate, however, it remained silent on the validity of her position as an elected representative from a Lok Sabha seat reserved for people belonging to Scheduled Caste category.[16][17] On 4 April 2024, the Supreme Court of India reversed the Bombay High Court's judgement and mentioned that there was no reason for the High Court to interfere in Scrutiny Committee's decision to validate Kaur's Scheduled Caste certificate of Sikh- Chamar.[18][19][20]

In April 2022, Kaur and her husband Ravi were arrested by Mumbai police following their insistence to recite Hanuman Chalisa in front of Matoshree the residence of then Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, with charges of sedition, promoting enmity and assaulting a public servant to prevent discharge of duty.[21] Later they were sent to 14 days of judicial custody, where Rana was sent to the Byculla women's jail on the orders of local magistrate.[22][23]

Personal life

After a short hiatus from her film career, on 3 February 2011, she married Ravi Rana, an independent MLA from Badnera constituency in Amravati city. It has been reported that they got married along with a mass marriage ceremony.[24]

Filmography

Year Film Role Language
2004 Seenu Vasanthi Lakshmi Lakshmi Telugu
Darshan Nandini Kannada
Sathruvvu Unknown Telugu
2005 Chetna: The Excitement Aastha Hindi
Jagapati Divya Telugu
Good Boy Krishna Veni
Sitam Sharmila
2006 Style Special appearance Telugu
Roommates Pallavi
Ranam Special appearance
2007 Maharadhi Naveena Telugu
Yamadonga Rambha
Bangaru Konda Alekhya
2008 Bhuma Unknown Telugu
Jabilamma Jabilamma
Terror Unknown
Arasangam Aarthi Tamil
Love In Singapore Diana Perreira Malayalam
2009 Flash News Nakshatra Telugu
Edukondalavada Venkataramana Andaru Bagundali Unknown
2010 Lad Gaya Pecha Lovely Punjabi
Nirnayam Unknown Telugu
Kalachakram Unknown
Ambasamudram Ambani Nandhini Tamil
Chhevan Dariya (The Sixth River) Reet Punjabi[25]

Music videos

Year Album Song Singer Co-star
2001 Dil Ka Haal Sune Dilwala Dil Ka Haal Sune Dilwala Altaf Raja
2002 Dil Mera Dhadkan Teri Akhiyon Mein Akhiyaan Daal Ke Anuradha Paudwal & Nitin Mukesh Arjan Bajwa
Inn Nasheeli Aankhon Se

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