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Khushbu Sundar
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Khushbu Sundar joins BJP hours after quitting Congress

| @indiablooms | Oct 12, 2020, at 08:33 pm

New Delhi/IBNS: In a jolt for the country's oldest political outfit, Tamil Nadu actor-turned politician Khushbu Sundar on Monday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) hours after quitting the Congress.

Joining the BJP, Sundar said, "The country cannot flourish without the kind of leadership provided by Prime Minister Narendra Modi ji."

Rumours gained pace on Sunday night as Sundar flew to the national capital New Delhi.

In her resignation letter to Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi, Sundar wrote she felt in the party "pushed and suppressed" by people who had no connection with ground reality.

Sundar had remained in the Congress for six years.

Sundar's joining is a shot in the arm for the BJP ahead of the 2021 assembly polls in Tamil Nadu.

Though the saffron camp is ruling in various states across the country, the BJP has not been able to make gains in the southern state of Tamil Nadu which has been dominated by regional parties over the years.

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