Popular Telugu actress and former MP from Telangana M Vijayashanti are likely to resign from the Congress party and return to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) soon, said a senior Congress leader wishing anonymity. The leader said the party had been getting signals about Vijayashanti’s purported plans to defect to the BJP for the last one week. “Indications are that she might leave the Congress. It is an unfortunate development. She might take a call after seeing the outcome of by-elections to Dubbak assembly seat in Siddipet district,” he said.
Vijayashanti tweeted that the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi in the state had weakened the Congress party and it had led to the growth of another national party, the BJP, that is posing a tough challenge to the TRS in Telangana. “Things in the Congress party could have been a little better had Manickam Tagore (All India Congress Committee in-charge for Telangana) come to the state a little earlier. Now, only time and the people of the state will decide the fate of the Congress,” she said. Vijayashanti, who was the star campaigner for the Congress in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, was later made the advisor to the election campaign committee of the Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee. However, she has been keeping away from party activities for quite some time and on many occasions, expressed her unhappiness over the PCC not inviting her to party meetings.
Last week, Vijayashanti created a stir in the Congress by calling on state BJP president and Karimnagar MP Bandi Sanjay, who was arrested by the police while he was on his way to Siddipet to protest against the seizure of cash from the residence of BJP candidate M Raghunandan Rao in Dubbak by-polls. Later, Union minister of state for home, G Kishan Reddy, went to her residence in Hyderabad and had an hour-long meeting with her. This led to the talk that she might join the BJP sooner or later.
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