Kangana Ranaut blasts Congress for nepotism, calls Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Vadra ‘weird nepo babies from Mars’
Bollywood actress Kangana Rananaut, who is contesting Lok Sabha Elections from Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, recently claimed that the political party of Congress was rife with nepotism just like Bollywood was. She said that the INC (Indian National Congress), was complicit in nepotism, just as much as the Indian film industry is.
In an interview with Times Now, she called lambasted the Congress political party for supporting nepotism as it had several Gandhi family members in important positions. She called Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Vadra as “nepo babies who came to India from Mars..”
“The Congress has always been an appalling party for me. The nepotism in the party has been hugely problematic for me because I was a target of the same system in my industry. I had condemned it openly, I fought against it. Something that was exploiting me… Nepotism, groupism, dynastic politics… I despise this party," she told the news publication.
The Bollywood actress have been a staunch advocate of meritocracy for a long while. In 2016, she grilled director-talk show host Karan Johar aka KJo on his own chat show ‘Koffee With Karan’ by calling him as the flag bearer of nepotism’’
In March 2024, the ‘Tanu Weds Manu’ actress was declared as an electoral candidate for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections by the Bharatiya Janata party. She would be contesting elections from the M andi district of Uttar Pradesh.
Taking to X (formerly Twitter) on March 29, the actress thanked the party of selecting her as an electoral candidate. “My beloved
