Ravi Rana is an Indian independent politician, social worker and founder of the Yuva Swabhiman Party (YSP). As an independent candidate, Rana was elected from the Badnera Assembly constituency for the third consecutive time in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly elections.
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Ravi Gangadhar Rana was born on Monday, April 28, 1980 (age 42; as of 2022) and he hails from Shankar Nagar, Amravati, Maharashtra. His zodiac sign is Taurus. He finished school in 1998. After that he did Bachelor of Commerce from Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University, Amravati, but he dropped out in his second year. Apart from being a politician, Rana is also a social worker and a farmer.
family
parents and siblings
Ravi Rana’s father’s name is Gangadhar Narayan Rana. Not much is known about his mother and siblings.
wife and children
On 2 February 2011, Ravi Rana married actress-turned-politician Navneet Kaur Rana, who mainly worked in the Telugu entertainment industry.
Ravi Rana and Navneet Rana
Navneet and Ravi were one of the 3,613 couples who tied the knot in a mass marriage ceremony held at the Science Core Ground in Amravati, attended by various popular Indian personalities such as Baba Ramdev, Maulana Mahmood Madani, Vivek Oberoi and Prithviraj Chavan.
A picture of Ravi Rana and Navneet Rana on their wedding day with Baba Ramdev and Vivek Oberoi
Navneet was born in a Punjabi family and grew up in Mumbai. Navneet Rana is an independent candidate, Member of Parliament from Amravati constituency. The couple met during one of the Yog Shivirs organized by Ravi Rana at Baba Ramdev Ashram. Navneet and Ravi have a son Ranveer and a daughter Arohi together.
Ravi Rana and Navneet Rana with their son Ranveer
Navneet Kaur Rana with her daughter
religion
Ravi Rana follows Hinduism.
Ravi Rana’s Facebook picture
Career
politics
2009 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly Elections
Ravi Rana contested the 2009 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly elections as an independent candidate from Badnera Assembly constituency in Amravati district of Vidarbha region of Maharashtra. He won the election defeating NCP candidate Sulba Khodke by 18,771 votes. The elections resulted in a coalition government of Congress and NCP with Ashok Chavan (Congress) as the Chief Minister.
2014 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly Elections
Ravi Rana contested the 2014 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly elections as an independent candidate from the Badnera Assembly constituency. He won the election defeating Shiv Sena candidate Band Sanjay by 7419 votes.
Maharashtra Legislative Assembly Election 2019
Ravi Rana contested the 2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly Elections as an independent candidate from Badnera Assembly Constituency. He won the election defeating Shiv Sena candidate Priti Band by 15,541 votes. He later offered unconditional support to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to form the government in the state after the elections. However, the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) of BJP and SHS failed to form a government, after which Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress formed the Maharashtra government under a new alliance called Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) with Uddhav Thackeray as Chief Minister.
confrontations
Arrested during farmers’ agitation (2011)
In 2011, Rana was arrested and jailed in the Central Jail in Amravati for participating in a farmers’ agitation demanding better remunerative prices for raw cotton. Rana, along with his wife and Yuva Swabhimani Sanghatana, launched a protest against the government in support of increasing the minimum guarantee price of raw cotton from Rs 3,300 to Rs 6,000 per quintal. While in prison, he went on an indefinite hunger strike due to which his health deteriorated. CM Prithviraj Chavan’s emissary and Maharashtra Industries Minister Narayan Rane spoke to Rana over phone to convince him to end his fast, but Rana refused to relent.
Clash with Shiv Sena District Chief Dinesh Bub (2019)
After the 2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly elections, Ravi Rana physically challenged Dinesh Bub, Shiv Sena’s Amravati district chief. According to reports, the leaders were attending a function at an old age home when Ravi Rana accused the Shiv Sena leader of using profanity while talking about his MP wife Navneet Rana. After that, the verbal altercation turned into a fight and both of them got in the way of each other. Soon the police intervened and forced Dinesh Bubi and his supporters to leave the ashram.
Booked for Violation of Lockout Norms (2020)
In 2020, Ravi Rana was arrested by the police for violating the COVID-19 lockdown norms to pay tributes to BR Ambedkar on his birth anniversary. Rana, along with five others, removed the barricades and stormed into Irwin Square, Amravati, where a statue of BR Ambedkar is erected. The police then invoked Section 188 of the Indian Penal Code (disobeying an order duly issued by a public servant) against Rana.
House arrest under Section 144 CrPC (2022)
On 12 January 2022, Rana was arrested under Section 144 of the CrPC for installing a statue of Shivaji Maharaj at Rajapet Plateau, Amravati, on the occasion of Shivaji Maharaj’s mother’s birthday. Police Commissioner Arti Singh said Rana and his followers had illegally encroached on the flyover to install the statue. Following the incident, Yuva Swabhiman Party activists burnt an effigy of Amravati Municipal Commissioner Praveen Ashtikari in front of Rana’s house to protest the removal of the statue.
Accused of Attempted Murder (2022)
Ravi Rana was charged with attempted murder for the attack on the Municipal Commissioner of Amravati in 2022. Some women workers of Rana’s Yuva Swabhiman Party threw ink on Amravati Municipal Commissioner Dr. Praveen Ashtikar. Activists were apparently angered by the removal of a statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, which was installed on the Rajapet Plateau in Amravati. Presumably, the statue was erected without seeking official permission from the municipal corporation; Accordingly, it was removed. Rana claimed that he was not present at the time of the incident; Therefore, he could not be held responsible.
Image showing a woman activist of the Yuva Swabhiman Party throwing ink at Amravati Municipal Commissioner Pravin Ashtikar
Arrested in Hanuman Chalisa (2022)
On 23 April 2022, Rana and his wife, Navneet Kaur Rana, were arrested by the Mumbai police and sentenced to 14 days judicial custody by the local magistrate for chanting the Hanuman Chalisa outside the residence of Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray. The couple had earlier announced that they would recite the Hanuman Chalisa in public if mosques continued to use loudspeakers for azaan and other announcements. Thereafter, the couple was booked under IPC Section 153 (A) (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language, etc. and committing acts prejudicial to the maintenance of harmony) and Section 135 (violation of police prohibitory orders) of the Mumbai Police Act. Later, the police also added Section 124-A (sedition) of the IPC in the case against them. The City Civil and Sessions Court granted bail to the couple on May 4, 2022 on bonds of 100 GEL. 50,000 each and ordered them not to talk to the media about the case.
Car collection
assets and properties
movable assets
- Deposits in banks, financial institutions and non-banking financial companies: Rs 3,24,274.
- LIC or other insurance policy: Rs 14,70,000
- Motor vehicles: Rs 30,41,255
real estate
- Agricultural land: Rs.3,50,000
- Commercial buildings: Rs.30,00,000
- Residential Buildings: Rs.1,87,00,000
Net worth
As of 2019, his net worth is GEL. 2,80,24,668.
Facts/Trivia
- The brainchild of Ravi Rana and Baba Ramdev, a mass marriage ceremony held in Vidarbha in 2011 resulted in Rana’s name entering the Indian Book of Records as the largest mass marriage ceremony ever held in history. With a budget of seven crores, the event brought together marriages from several communities.
A picture of Ravi Rana and Navneet Rana on their wedding day with Baba Ramdev receiving the India Book of Records Certificate for Largest Mass Wedding
- In 2015, he made headlines when he saved an old man’s barber from being assaulted. The shop belonged to a barber named Mahadeo Chandrabhan Dehankar, who was the sole breadwinner of his family. Speaking to the media, Dehankar said:
I have been running this store for the past 40 years and I have met both sides of my family through it. I was shocked when the AMC demolition squad gave me a notice. The thought of losing my bread-and-butter fed me up and rushed to MLA Ravi Rana for help.”
- He is a devoted follower of Lord Ganesha.
Ravi Rana carries Lord Ganesh statue for Visarjan
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