Actor, politician Vijayashanti, who quit the Congress last week, joined the ruling BJP on Monday, a day after she met with Home Minister Amit Shah. Vijayashanti, who began her political career with the BJP, joined the TRS Party and switched loyalties to the Congress in 2014 before the formation of Telangana state.
Vijayashanti will be the second popular star in South to join the BJP after Khushbu in Tamil Nadu. Khushbu too had quit Congress and embraced BJP. The former MP was said to be inactive in Congress party’s activities and programmes in the state for the past few months. She resigned from the Congress after the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation results.