Overview

• Kangana Ranaut said politics is a “very expensive hobby” and admitted she is not enjoying her first term as a Member of Parliament.
• She highlighted that MPs receive smaller budgets than MLAs and panchayats and lack official cabinets for coordinating relief efforts in Mandi.
• Ranaut described parliamentarians as undervalued “twilight” figures stranded between state and Centre.
• She welcomed the creation of District Development Coordination and Monitoring Committees as a crucial means to define and empower MPs’ roles.
• Her comments underscore persistent calls for structural reforms to address MPs’ financial and institutional constraints.