The couple is in jail after being arrested by the Mumbai Police for ‘creating enmity between different groups’.
The couple is in jail after being arrested by the Mumbai Police for ‘creating enmity between different groups’.
Barely two months after Navneet Rana won the Amravati (SC) Lok Sabha constituency as an independent with Congress-Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) support, he met the then Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis in July 2019 and received his first MP salary. given away. Chief Minister Relief Fund citing the need for funds for drought-affected farmers in the state. It is not that the Congress-NCP leaders in the state were surprised to see his transition side, but they never thought it would be so quick and obvious.
A few months later, her husband and independent MLA from Badnera assembly seat, Ravi Rana, was at the forefront of uniting independent legislators in the post-Maharashtra assembly election turmoil in favor of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The pair is known to grab attention and controversies never leave them. Not only this, the Bombay High Court has canceled the caste certificate of Ms. Rana in June 2021. While his appeal is pending in the Supreme Court, the matter is proceeding at a snail’s pace.
Currently, the couple is in jail as the Mumbai Police had arrested them for ‘creating enmity between different groups’ as they jumped in the saffron wagon and wanted to study. Hanuman Chalisa In front of Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray’s house. The Rana vs Sena saga is also a reflection of the BJP’s desperate attempts to corner Thackeray. Ms. Rana’s speeches in the Lok Sabha are a direct attack on the state government. He has also complained of breach of privilege against Amravati CP and Municipal Commissioner. He accused Shiv Sena MP Arvind Sawant of threatening him and claimed that the state government has failed on every front.
Ravi Rana, an associate of a Mumbai-based hotelier who had extensive political contacts across parties and regions – contested the 2009 Maharashtra Assembly elections as an independent and the youth leader was able to attract the youth with his massive ‘poster’ campaign. Succeeded. During this time he became close to Baba Ramdev. The series of yoga camps of Ramdev in Amravati district became so much.
Mumbai born Punjabi Navneet Kaur was a model and was trying her chances in the film industry. With experience in Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam, Tamil and Punjabi films, she met Mr. Rana in a ‘Shibir’. Ramdev played the role of a cupid, the two got married along with 3000 other couples in a mass marriage ceremony organized by him in 2011. Mr. Rana, as an independent MLA, was always seen trying to mingle with the then Congress Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan.
Despite opposition from the Manmohan Singh government led by Ramdev ahead of the 2014 general elections, the UPA constituent NCP decided to field him against Shiv Sena’s Anand Adsul. This led to a rebellion within the NCP and ultimately their defeat. Despite the wife being an NCP candidate, Mr. Rana later supported the BJP-led state government in Maharashtra as an independent legislator.
In the 2019 general elections, Ms. Rana again contested as an independent with the support of Congress-NCP. She won by nearly 40,000 votes against Mr Adsul, who then began pursuing a fake caste certificate case in which her caste certificate was canceled by the Bombay High Court in June 2021. Now it is pending in the top court.