Navneet Kaur Rana Biography: Navneet Kaur Rana, formerly known as Navneet Ravi Rana, is an Indian politician and former actress who primarily appeared in Telugu films. In the Lok Sabha elections of 2019, she was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) from Amravati while running as an independent. In 2025, she ran on the BJP ticket and lost her seat in Amravati by a margin of fewer than 20,000 votes to Congressman Balwant Wankhede. Joining BJP Campaign of Navneet Rana in General Elections 2025. She joined the Bharatiya Janta Party on 28 March 2025 and contested from Amravati Lok Sabha constituency as a BJP candidate in the 2025 general elections but lost the seat to Balwant Baswant Wankhade of Indian National Congress.
Navneet Kaur Rana Biography
Actress Navneet Kaur Rana, who has roles in Telugu, Malayalam, Punjabi, and Bollywood films, gained political prominence in 2019 after she defeated Amravati’s five-term Lok Sabha MP, Anandrao Adsul, who was a member of the Shiv Sena at the time of division. Rana, who married independent MLA Ravi Rana of Badnera, Maharashtra, in 2011, had run unsuccessfully as an NCP candidate against Adsul in 2014. However, in 2019, Rana defeated Adsul by winning the Amravati Lok Sabha seat with the NCP’s implicit support.
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Adsul, who has joined Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena, and Bachchu Kadu, an independent MLA from Amravati’s Achalpur who is also in Shinde’s camp, are enraged by Navneet Kaur Rana, who recently joined the Bharatiya Janata Party and was nominated as the party’s candidate from Amravati to contest the 2025 Lok Sabha election. She is enthusiastic about running for reelection, though, as the richest political party in India is now supporting her. Rana will compete against several contenders, including Balwant Wankhede of the Congress, Dinesh Bub of the Prahar Janshakti Party, Prajakta Pillewan of the Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi, and the most recent candidate, Anandraj Ambedkar of the Republican Sena, who is the grandson of Dr. B R Ambedkar.
Navneet Kaur Rana Biography Overview
Full Name
Navneet Ravi Rana
Date of Birth
06 Apr 1985 (Age 39)
Place of Birth
Mumbai, Maharashtra
Party Name
Bharatiya Janta Party
Education
Graduate
Profession
Agriculturist
Father’s Name
Harbhajan Singh Kundless
Mother’s Name
Rajani Kaur
Religion
Hindu
Who is Navneet Kaur Rana?
Navneet Kaur Rana is an Indian politician and a former Indian actress who mainly acted in Telugu cinema. ampaign of Navneet Rana in General Elections 2025. She joined the Bharatiya Janta Party on 28 March 2025 and contested from Amravati Lok Sabha constituency as a BJP candidate in the 2025 general elections but lost the seat to Balwant Baswant Wankhade of Indian National Congress.
Born: 3 January 1986 (age 38 years), Mumbai
Spouse: Ravi Rana (m. 2011)
Party: Bharatiya Janata Party
Education: Karthika High School & Junior College
Marriage location: Amravati
Office: Member of the Lok Sabha since 2019
Navneet Kaur Rana Net Worth 2025
Navneet Kaur Rana’s estimated net worth is $ 5 million (37 Crores INR).
Husband
Ravi Rana (2011-Present): Navneet Rana met her MLA husband Ravi Rana at a yoga retreat in the ashram, where they developed a close bond leading to their marriage. Before tying the knot on February 2, 2011, Navneet sought blessings from Baba Ramdev for their relationship. The couple, who are parents to a son named Ranveer and a daughter named Aarohi, exchanged vows in a grand ceremony.
Kaur grew raised in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, where she was born. Her father was an army official, and both of her parents are Ravidassia Caste members of Punjabi descent. She finished her studies at Karthika High School in Kurla, Mumbai, up to the tenth grade. She stopped attending to school after her 12th grade year and started working as a model. She later starred in six music videos. Darshan is a Kannada film that marked Kaur’s feature film debut. thereafter came her Telugu film debut alongside Seenu Vasanthi Lakshmi (2004). Her further films include Chetna (2005), Jagapathi (2005), Good Boy (2005), and Bhuma (2008). Additional pieces include the Telugu version of the Hindi film Chameli, Jabilamma, Terror, Flash News, and Kalachakram. She was one of the competitors on the Humma Humma reality show on Gemini TV. She played the lead role in Rafi Mecartin’s Malayalam film, Love in Singapore. 2010 saw her costarring with Gurpreet Ghuggi in the Punjabi film Lad Geya Pecha.
She unsuccessfully ran for the Nationalist Congress Party in the 2014 Lok Sabha Election after being married to Ravi Rana. With the backing of the Indian National Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party, she became victorious in the Lok Sabha Elections 2019 as an Independent candidate from the Amravati, Maharashtra constituency, defeating Anandrao Adsul of the Shiv Sena. She has spent Rs. 65 lakh running as an independent in this election, compared to Rs. 49 lakh spent by Adsul, the previous MP, in support of a democratic process. She is occasionally observed getting into arguments with Shiv Sena and its party members on a variety of levels (local, regional, and national); in public or in different establishments like the Lok Sabha. On March 28, 2025, she became a member of the Bharatiya Janta Party. She ran as a BJP candidate from the Amravati Lok Sabha seat in the general elections of 2025, but the Indian National Congress’ Balwant Baswant Wankhade defeated her.
Controversy
Her submission of a fraudulent Mochi caste certificate resulted in a Rs. 2 lakh fine from the Bombay High Court on June 8, 2021. Although the court revoked her caste certificate, it said nothing about the legitimacy of her election to the Lok Sabha, since her seat is designated for members of the Scheduled Caste. Reversing the Bombay High Court’s ruling on April 4, 2025, the Supreme Court of India stated that the Scrutiny Committee’s decision to approve Kaur’s Scheduled Caste certificate—a Sikh—was legal and that the High Court had no jurisdiction to intervene.
Following their insistence on reciting the Hanuman Chalisa in front of Matoshree, the home of then-Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, Kaur and her husband Ravi were taken into custody by Mumbai police in April 2022. They were charged with sedition, inciting enmity, and assaulting a public servant to prevent them from performing their duties. Following their 14 days in judicial prison, a local magistrate ordered Rana to be taken to the women’s jail in Byculla.
Bio/Wiki
Profession
Actress, Social Worker, Politician
She married Ravi Rana, an independent MLA from the Badnera constituency in Amravati city, on February 3, 2011, following a brief break from her film career. There have been rumours that they were married in a public ceremony as well.
Physical Stats & More
Height (approx.)
5′ 5″ (165 cm)
Eye Colour
Black
Hair Colour
Black
Career
Debut
Film (Kannada): Darshan (2003) as Nandini
Film (Telugu): Seenu Vasanthi Lakshmi (2003) as Lakshmi
Film: Chetna: The Excitement (2005) as Aastha
Film (Malayalam): Love in Singapore (2009)
Film (Punjabi): Lad Gaya Pecha (2010) as Lovely
• Contested and lost 2014 general elections from Amravati Lok Sabha constituency on a ticket from the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)
• Elected as an MP from Amravati Lok Sabha constituency as an independent candidate in 2019, defeating the Shiv Sena candidate Anandrao Adsul by 36,951 votes
• Member of the Standing Committee on Agriculture (13 September 2019-13 September 2020)
• Member of the Standing Committee on External Affairs
• Member of the Consultative Committee on the Ministry of Finance
• Member of the Consultative Committee on Ministry of Corporate Affairs
• On 27 March 2025, she joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.
• Lost the 2025 Lo Sabha elections from the Amravati constituency by 19,731 votes
Personal Life
Date of Birth
6 April 1985 (Saturday)
Age (as of 2025)
39 Years
Birthplace
Mumbai, Maharashtra
Zodiac sign
Aries
Nationality
Indian
Hometown
Mumbai, Maharashtra
School
Karthika High School, Kurla West, Mumbai (Up to 10th standard)
Note: Navneet Rana dropped out of her school when she was in twelfth standard and started working as a model.
Educational Qualification
Bachelor of Commerce
Ethnicity
Navneet Rana was born in a Punjabi family.
Address
Permanent Address
50, Ganga Savitri,
Shankar Nagar, Rajapeth,
Amravati-444606, Maharashtra
Present Address
19, Duplex, North Avenue,
New Delhi-110001
Controversies
Abused by Anandrao Adsul
In 2014, Navneet Rana was harrassed by Anandrao Adsul (of Shiv Sena) after which she registered a complaint against him at Gadge Nagar Police Station, Amravati. Reportedly, Adsul had abused and threatened her in the name of caste and character. The harassment started when it became evident that Navneet had secured a ticket from the NCP to contest the Amravati Lok Sabha seat against Adsul.
Caste certificate row
Navneet Kaur attracted controversy over her caste certificate. In 2014, while Navneet filed a petition challenging the caste certificate issued to her, another petition was filed by Raju Mankar alleging that Navneet has procured a caste certificate on the basis of fake documents. He mentioned in his petition that- “She originally hails from the State of Punjab. As per information received by the petitioners, she belongs to Labana caste which is not recognised as Scheduled Caste in the State of Maharashtra. However, she initially obtained a caste certificate from the Sub-Divisional Officer on the basis of fake school leaving certificate.” On 8 June 2021, the Bombay High Court fined her Rs. 2 lakh for submitting a fake caste certificate. A division bench of Justices R D Dhanuka and V G Bisht noted that the she made false claim that she belonged to ‘Mochi’ caste for obtaining the Scheduled Caste certificate with an intention to enjoy various benefits available to a candidate from such category, despite knowing she does not belong to that caste.
Arrested in Hanuman Chalisa row
On 23 April 2022, independent MP Navneet Rana and her MLA husband Ravi Rana were arrested after they gave a call for the chanting of Hanuman Chalisa outside Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray’s private residence ‘Matoshree’ in Mumbai. Later, the Mumbai Police slapped the sedition charge on the politician couple, and the Rana couple was remanded in 14-day judicial custody. On 4 May 2022, the City Civil and Sessions Court granted bail to Navneet Kaur Rana and her MLA husband Ravi Rana on a bond of Rs. 50,000 in connection with the Hanuman Chalisa controversy; the court also directed the couple not to speak to the media about the case.
Booked under IPC Section-420
Charges related to Cheating and Dishonestly Inducing Delivery of Property were filed against Navneet Rana in Mulund Police Station, Mumbai, in 2014.
Non-bailable warrant
In November 2022, a Mumbai court issued a non-bailable warrant (NBW) against Rana and in a fake caste certificate case. Navneet Rana and her father allegedly forged a caste certificate as the seat from where Navneet Rana was elected to the Lok Sabha was reserved for Scheduled Caste candidates.
Relationships & More
Marital Status
Married
Marriage Date
2 February 2011
Family
Husband/Spouse
Ravi Rana (an independent politician, who was elected as an MLA for the third time in a row from the Badnera Assembly Constituency in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election, 2019)
The Supreme Court on Thursday overturned the Bombay High Court’s judgment, reinstating Navneet Kaur Rana’s Scheduled Caste (SC) certificate. The ruling marked a pivotal moment for Rana, a Member of Parliament from Amravati
