Ravi Rana is an Indian impartial politician, social employee, and founding father of the Yuva Swabhiman Get together (YSP). As an impartial candidate, Rana was elected as an MLA for the third time in a row from the Badnera Meeting Constituency within the 2019 Maharashtra Legislative Meeting elections.
Wiki/Biography
Ravi Gangadhar Rana was born in 1979 (age 43 years; as of 2022), and he hails from Shankarnagar, Amravati, Maharashtra. After acquiring his matriculation in 1996, he accomplished his twelfth in 1998. Thereafter, he pursued a Bachelor of Commerce from Sant Gadge Baba Amravati College, Amravati, however he dropped out in his second 12 months.
Household
Dad and mom & Siblings
Ravi Rana father’s identify is Gangadhar Narayan Rana. Not a lot is way about his mom and siblings.
Spouse & Kids
On 2 February 2011, Ravi Rana bought married to the actress-turned-politician Navneet Kaur Rana, who has primarily labored within the Telugu leisure trade.
Navneet and Ravi had been one in all 3613 {couples} who tied the knot in a mass bridal ceremony held in Science Core Floor, Amravati, the place numerous in style Indian personalities like Baba Ramdev, Maulana Mahmood Madani, Vivek Oberoi, and Prithviraj Chavan had been current.
Navneet was born in a Punjabi household and raised in Mumbai. Navneet Rana is an impartial candidate, a Member of Parliament from the Amravati constituency. The couple made acquaintance at an ashram of Baba Ramdev. Again then, Ravi Rana was organising one in all Baba Ramdev’s Yog Shivirs. Collectively, Navneet and Ravi have a son, Ranveer, and a daughter, Aarohi.
Faith/Non secular Views
Ravi Rana follows Hinduism. In April 2022, Ravi Rana, alongside along with his spouse, Navneet Kaur Rana, was arrested for reciting the Hanuman Chalisa, a Hindu devotional hymn, outdoors Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray’s bungalow, Matoshree. They had been booked for selling enmity between completely different non secular teams.
Profession
Aside from being a politician, Rana is a social employee and farmer.
Politics
2009 Maharashtra Legislative Meeting Elections
Ravi Rana contested the 2009 Maharashtra Legislative Meeting elections as an impartial candidate from the Badnera Meeting Constituency within the Amravati District of the Vidarbha area of Maharashtra. He gained the elections defeating the NCP candidate Sulbha Khodke by 18771 votes. Within the elections, a coalition authorities of Congress and NCP was fashioned with Ashok Chavan (of Congress) because the chief minister.
2014 Maharashtra Legislative Meeting Elections
Ravi Rana contested the 2014 Maharashtra Legislative Meeting elections as an impartial candidate from the Badnera Meeting Constituency. He gained the elections defeating the Shiv Sena candidate Band Sanjay by 7419 votes.
2019 Maharashtra Legislative Meeting Elections
Ravi Rana contested the 2019 Maharashtra Legislative Meeting elections as an impartial candidate from the Badnera Meeting Constituency. He gained the elections defeating the Shiv Sena candidate Priti Band with a margin of 15541 votes. Later, he supplied his unconditional assist to the Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP) to type the federal government within the state after the elections. Nevertheless, when the ruling Nationwide Democratic Alliance (NDA) of the BJP and SHS did not type a authorities, Shiv Sena, NCP, and Congress fashioned the Maharashtra authorities beneath a brand new alliance referred to as Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), with Uddhav Thackeray because the Chief Minister.
Controversies
Arrested Throughout a Farmers’ Agitation (2011)
In 2011, Rana was arrested and jailed within the Central Jail Amravati for taking part in farmers’ agitation demanding a greater remunerative worth for uncooked cotton. Rana, alongside along with his spouse and Yuva Swabhimani Sanghatana, had launched a protest in assist of climbing the minimal assure worth of uncooked cotton from Rs 3,300 to Rs 6,000 per quintal. Within the jail, he sat on an indefinite starvation strike for the trigger on account of which his well being deteriorated. The chief minister Prithviraj Chavan’s emissary and the Maharashtra minister for Industries, Narayan Rane talked with Rana over the phone to persuade him to finish his quick, however Rana refused to relent.
Booked for violating lockdown norms (2020)
In 2020, Ravi Rana was booked by the police for violating the lockdown norms to pay tribute to BR Ambedkar on the event of his delivery anniversary in Maharashtra. Rana and 5 others eliminated barricades to achieve Irwin Sq., Amravati, Maharashtra, for paying tributes to B R Ambedkar amid the COVID-19 lockdown. The police have invoked part 188 (Disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant) of the Indian Penal Code in opposition to Rana.
Put in Home Arrest beneath Part 144 of CrPC (2022)
In January 2022, Rana was put in home arrest beneath Part 144 of CrPC for putting in Shivaji Maharaj’s statue on Rajapeth flyover, Amravati, on the night time of 12 January 2022, on the event of the Shivaji Maharaj’s mom’s birthday. Police commissioner Arti Singh claimed that Rana and his followers had illegally encroached upon the flyover land to put in the statue. Within the aftermath of the incident, Yuva Swabhiman Get together activists burnt an effigy of Amravati municipal commissioner Pravin Ashtikar in entrance of Rana’s home in protest.
Booked for Try and Homicide (2022)
Ravi Rana was booked for an try and homicide over an assault on the Amravati Municipal Commissioner. Some ladies staff of Rana’s Yuva Swabhiman Get together splashed ink upon Amravati Municipal Commissioner Dr Pravin Ashtikar. Apparently, the activists had been offended with the removing of the statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, which was being put in in Rajapeth flyover, Amravati. Allegedly, the statue was being put in with out searching for formal permission from the Municipal Company; subsequently, it was eliminated. Rana claimed that he was not current on the spot on the time of the incident.
Arrested In Hanuman Chalisa Row (2022)
In April 2022, Rana and his spouse, Navneet Kaur Rana, had been arrested by Mumbai police and despatched to 14 days of judicial custody on the orders of a neighborhood Justice of the Peace for chanting Hanuman Chalisa in entrance of Matoshree, the residence of Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray. The incident triggered protests by Shiv Sainiks. The couple had earlier introduced that may recite Hanuman Chalisa in public if mosques continued to make use of loudspeakers for Azaan and different bulletins. The Ranas had been booked beneath IPC part 153 (A) (Selling enmity between completely different teams on grounds of faith, race, fatherland, residence, language, and so forth., and doing acts prejudicial to upkeep of concord), and part 135 of the Mumbai Police Act (violation of prohibitory orders of police). Later, the police additionally added IPC Part 124-A (sedition) within the case in opposition to them
Automotive Assortment
Asset & Properties
Movable Property
- Deposits in Banks, Monetary Establishments and Non-Banking Monetary Corporations: Rs 3,24,274
- LIC or different insurance coverage Insurance policies: Rs 14,70,000
- Motor Autos: Rs 30,41,255
Immovable Property
- Agricultural Land: Rs 3,50,000
- Industrial Buildings: Rs 30,00,000
- Residential Buildings: Rs 1,87,00,000
Web Value
As of 2019, his internet price is 2,80,24,668.
Details/Trivia
- A brainchild of Ravi Rana, the mass bridal ceremony held in Vidarbha in 2011 led Rana’s identify to be recorded within the India E book of Information because it was the biggest mass bridal ceremony ever carried out in historical past. With a finances of seven crores, the occasion built-in a number of communities’ matrimony.
- In 2015, he made headlines when he saved an outdated man’s barbershop from encroachment. The store belonged to a barber named Mahadeo Chandrabhan Dehankar, the only real bread earner of his household. Whereas addressing the media, Dehankar mentioned,
I’ve been working this store for the final 40 years and assembly each ends of my household on the energy of it. I used to be shocked when AMC encroachment demolition squad served a discover on me. The considered shedding my bread and butter made me stressed and I rushed to MLA Ravi Rana for assist.”
- He’s an adherent follower of Lord Ganesha.