Vijayashanti joins BJP

Actress turned politician Vijayashanti joined Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday in the presence of BJP national chief secretary Arun Singh in Delhi.

The news that is being circulated of Vijayashanti joining BJP has finally come to an end with the actor joining BJP. Vijayashanti resigned to Congress two days ago which is said to be huge blow to the party.

The actress on Sunday along with Union Minister Kishan Reddy met home minister Amit Shah. She was formally inducted into BJP today.

Vijayashanti entered politics by joining into BJP in 1998 and was made secretary of the party's Mahila Morcha. When the Telangana movement reached its peak, she quit the BJP and floated her own regional party Talli Telangana. Later, she merged the party with Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) in 2009 and got elected to Lok Sabha from Medak parliamentary constituency.

However, she was sidelined in the TRS during the formation of Telangana in 2014 and resigned from the TRS and joined the Congress.