Navneet Kaur Rana | |
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Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha | |
In office 23 May 2019 –4 June 2024 | |
Preceded by | Anandrao Adsul |
Succeeded by | Balwant Wankhade |
Constituency | Amravati |
Personal details | |
Born | Navneet Kaur 6 April 1985 Mumbai,Maharashtra,India [1] |
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Other political affiliations | |
Spouse | Ravi Rana |
Occupation | Politician,Former Actress |
Navneet Kaur Rana (also known as Navneet Ravi Rana) is an Indian politician and a former Indian actress who mainly acted in Telugu cinema. She was an elected Member of Parliament (MP) from Amravati in 2019 Lok Sabha elections as an independent candidate and in 2024 she contested on the ticket of BJP,lost her Amravati Constituency with the margin of 19,731 votes to congressman Balwant Wankhede. [2] [3]
Kaur was born and brought up in Mumbai,Maharashtra,India. [1] 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. [1] 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.
After the marriage with Ravi Rana,she stood unsuccessfully as a Nationalist Congress Party candidate in the 2014 Lok Sabha Election.[ citation needed ]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Year | Film | Role | Language |
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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] |
Year | Album | Song | Singer | Co-star |
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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 |
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