New Delhi: Actor-politician Kangana Ranaut has invested in 50 Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) policies — all bought in 2008 — with the total assured amount of these policies coming to Rs 4.9 crore, according to her affidavit filed with her nomination papers from the Mandi Lok Sabha seat in Himachal Pradesh Tuesday. Ranaut has declared total assets worth Rs 91.6 crore.
The affidavit also discloses eight criminal cases against Ranaut, including four defamation cases, two cases related to offending religious sentiments, and one case each for inciting religious enmity and copyright infringement and cheating.
Ranaut’s movable assets, valued at Rs 28.73 crore, include three high-end cars worth Rs 5.48 crore and a Vespa scooter priced at Rs 53,000. Her jewellery collection, consisting of 6.7 kg of gold, 60 kg of silver, and 14-carat diamonds, is estimated to be Rs 8.5 crore in value.
As an entrepreneur, Ranaut runs two companies — Manikarnika Films Pvt Ltd and Manikarnika Space Pvt Ltd — and holds shares valued at Rs 1.2 lakh.
She has extended loans of Rs 40 lakh to Manikarnika Films, co-directed by her brother Akshat Ranaut, and a separate loan of Rs 70.98 lakh to him.
Additionally, her father, a director at Manikarnika Space, has received a loan of Rs 28.7 crore from her, and her sister Rangoli Ranaut has been loaned Rs 5.1 crore.
Manikarnika Films is currently promoting its latest project, “Emergency”, featuring Ranaut as Indira Gandhi, the former prime minister of India.
Ranaut’s fixed assets, worth Rs 62.9 crore, are primarily in commercial and residential properties — all self-acquired. In the past two years, she has purchased four commercial properties in Chandigarh for Rs 2.46 crore, in addition to owning commercial spaces in Kullu and Mumbai, valued at Rs 28.95 crore.
Her residential holdings include a flat in Maharashtra, where she primarily works, and a house in her birthplace of Himachal Pradesh, collectively valued at Rs 31.5 crore.
Identifying herself as an “actor, director, and producer”, Ranaut has made her mark in the acting and modeling industry from an early age. Her highest educational qualification is that of Class 12 from DAV Model School in Chandigarh, which she passed in 2003.
Ranaut is poised to challenge Congress’s Vikramaditya Singh — son of the late Virbhadra Singh, former chief minister of Himachal Pradesh, and Pratibha Singh, the current MP — in the polls in Himachal scheduled on 1 June.
In 2019, Bharatiya Janata Party’s Ram Swaroop Sharma secured the Mandi Lok Sabha seat with a margin exceeding 4 lakh votes. Following Virbhadra Singh’s demise in 2021, the seat was claimed by Pratibha Singh of the Congress, who won by a margin of 66,000 votes, according to Election Commission of India.
(Edited by Richa Mishra)
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