Kangana Ranaut says Jawaharlal Nehru's father Motilal Nehru was Ambani of his time, Congress files complaint with EC

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ALSO READ: Kangana Ranaut takes aim at Tejasvi Surya, mistakes him for Tejashwi Yadav in viral speech: WATCH "Motilal Nehru, the father of former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, was Ambani of his time but no one knows from where his wealth and property came from. He was close to the British, and from where he got the wealth is still a secret," she said while addressing a gathering at Himachal Pradesh's Sarkaghat assembly segment.

The segment falls under the Mandi parliamentary constituency and it goes to polls on June 1 along with the three other seats – Kangra, Hamirpur and Shimla – in the state. Ranaut, an actor, also said that "nobody knows how Jawaharlal Nehru became the prime minister as voting was in favour of (former deputy prime minister) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel".

Since then, this "'deemak' (termite) of dynastic rule has infected the country", she said. ALSO READ: Politics or films? BJP's Mandi candidate Kangana Ranaut ready to work full time if… "On one hand we have a 'tapasvion ke sarkar' (BJP government) and on the other we have 'bhoogion ke sarkar' (Congress) made up of small gangs of 'shehzadas', one them is in Delhi and the other is here (in Himachal Pradesh)," she said in an apparent reference to Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Virkamaditya Singh.

Virkamaditya Singh, who is the public works minister in Himachal Pradesh, is the scion of the erstwhile royal family of Rampur. The son of six-time chief minister, the late, Virbhadra Singh and state Congress chief Pratibha Singh has been pitted by the Congress against Ranaut in the Lok Sabha polls.