Kangana Ranaut thanked the BJP President JP Nadda

I'm grateful to Home Minister Amit Shah and PM Narendra Modi for this responsibility: Kangana

HP population is hardly 60/70 lakhs, no poverty/crime: Kangana

Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut has been finalised as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate from the Mandi Lok Sabha constituency in Himachal Pradesh (HP). She thanked the BJP President JP Nadda for giving her the opportunity in a press conference. “I’m extremely emotional. You can understand that this is an emotional moment for me and my family. I’m grateful to our national president JP Nadda. Union minister Anurag Thakur has always supported me. Our Ex-CM Jairam Thakur has always guided me. I’m grateful to Home Minister Amit Shah and PM Narendra Modi for this responsibility. I am not new to challenges in life. I left home for my profession at a very young age and faced many obstacles. That’s why God gave me the strength to serve my people,” Kangana said. 

However an old tweet of Kangana has resurfaced to much amusement. In 2021 when an X user had predicted that Kangana will contest the by-elections from Mandi, Kangana replied by saying, “I was given the option of Gwalior during 2019 Loksabha elections, HP population is hardly 60/70 lakhs, no poverty/crime.If I get in to politics I want a state with complexities i can work on and be the Queen I am in that field also. Small fry like you won’t understand big talks (sic).”