Prime Minister Narendra Modi tagged South Indian superstar Kamal Haasan as one among the nine in his Swachh Bharat challenge, but he wasn't the only Tamil star who was impressed.
Khushboo Sundar, former member of the DMK, also tweeted her support for the abhiyaan on the day of the launch, setting off speculation that the BJP may be her next political port of call.
“#SwatchhBharat..it's the duty of every citizen to keep our Bharat clean...start with home...use dustbins...segregate recycling items..don't dump,“ says her tweet on the issue, along with a couple of other RTs from the prime minister's twitter handle.
“As for joining the BJP or any other political party, let me say that I'm no longer with the DMK, and am currently on a break from everything, to figure out what to do next,“ she said.
“I don't want to join anyone in a hurry and later find out that either we have an ideological mismatch, or there is no growth there. That's what happened in the last political party I joined,“ she said.
Sundar was a member of the DMK and had quit the party on June 16 this year after she found “the one-way path of hard work in the party“ not to her liking. She also had differences with DMK pa triarch M Karunanidhi's designated successor MK Stalin.
The state BJP , which has been on the lookout for suitably prominent faces to project, has not exactly been lukewarm, but have adopted a wait-and-watch policy.
“In the past, we had pursued actor Sivakumar, and the prime minister had met with his son Surya as well. But nothing came of that,“ said the source. PM Modi actively wooed Rajnikanth, but apart from wishing the party well, the superstar hasn't committed anything.
The state is in a political vacuum with Jayalalithaa in jail and the DMK not exactly in fighting form.Sundar, like others, is also watching which way the tide will turn before 2016 when assembly elections are due.
