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Kangana sweats it out against royal scion

The New Indian Express

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May 26, 2024

AMONG the most watched duels this poll season is the one at Himachal Pradesh's Mandi where Bollywood 'Queen' Kangana Ranaut is cutting her electoral teeth on behalf of the BJP against Vikramaditya Singh of the Congress.

- HARPREET BAJWA

Kangana sweats it out against royal scion

It's like an open air theater where an ebullient but inexperience candidate is sweating it out against a seasoned neta.

Kangana's glam quotient is high but so is her tendency for loose talk by straying off the script, making headlines for all the wrong reasons. The party is learning to manage the impulsive actor and trying keep her away from harm's way.

Her opponent is a pedigreed minister in the Sukhvinder Singh 'Sukhu' government, as he is a scion of the erstwhile Rampur royal family.

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