Tamil actor Kushboo leaves Congress, joins BJP

Actor Kushboo Sundar, who resigned from the primary membership of the Congress Party, was officially inducted into the Bharatiya Janata Party in New Delhi.

New Delhi: Actress-turned politician Kushboo Sundar on Monday officially joined the Bharatiya Janata Party, hours after she resigned from the Congress.

"If the nation has to move forward, then we need somebody like PM Modi to take the country in the right direction," Kushboo said after joining the BJP.

Earlier in the day, Khushboo who was Congress national spokesperson, resigned from the primary membership of the party protesting against what she called some leaders "dictating terms" and "suppressing" her.

The party, meanwhile, announced in Delhi that Kushboo has been dropped from her post of All India Congress Committee spokesperson with "immediate effect."

A popular Tamil actor, she was with the DMK before joining the Congress Party in 2014.

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