HYDERABAD: After
Khushbu Sundar
from Tamil Nadu,
Vijayashanti became the second actress from Congress to join the BJP. After joining the party in the presence of party’s national general secretary Arun Singh in Delhi on Monday, Vijayashanti said BJP is the only alternative to the TRS in
Telangana.
Popularly known as ‘Ramulamma’ and ‘Lady Amitabh’ for the variety of roles she had essayed in her long film career, Vijayashanti had kept a low profile in the last 2-3 years while in the Congress. Addressing reporters along with Arun Singh, she said chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao removed her from the TRS on the day statehood was announced for Telangana. “I quit the BJP for some reasons. I always fought for Telangana. When KCR insisted, I had to merge Talli Telangana Party with the TRS,” she said.
Expressing confidence that the BJP will win the next assembly election in Telangana, she said the only the BJP can fight the TRS government. She said Dubbak and
GHMC poll results
had given impetus to the party to strongly challenge the TRS in its own turf. “We will expose the ‘anti-people’ regime of TRS.” On her role in the BJP, she said: “It will be decided by the party leadership. I am ready to campaign anywhere. Vijayashanti rejoining the party was only a formality as she met Union home minister Amit Shah on Sunday and BJP national president JP Nadda in Hyderabad during his campaign for GHMC polls.
Her return to the BJP is significant as the saffron party is eyeing to oust the TRS at the hustings in 2023 assembly elections. While campaigning for the Congress in 2019 parliamentary elections, she compared Prime Minister Narendra Modi to a terrorist and a dictator.
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