Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Bangalore: South Indian Star Ramya May Join Congress



Bangalore, Apr 19 (8-35 am): Ramya, a popular star of Sandalwood, Kollywood and Tollywood, who was involved in a few controversies of an assorted kind in the recent past, has tweeted that she would be actively involved in youth Congress activities from now.
She is said to have posted in Twitter that she would help the youth Congress which is being rejuvenated and would join it formally very soon. The youth Congress sources indicated that she may choose the occasion of youth Congress head Rahul Gandhi's impending visit to the Garden City on April 20 to take the plunge. The massive rally to be held on the palace grounds could mark her formal entry in Rahul's presence.
Ramya has said that she has been enamoured of the leadership qualities in Rahul Gandhi and has decided to involve herself in youth Congress activities and help in organizing the youth power. However, she would not play an active role in politics, she has indicated.
Ramya, born as Divya Spandana in Bangalore, studied at St Hilda's school in Ooty and in Sacred Heart School (Church Park), Chennai, Tamil Nadu. She pursued her graduation at St Joseph's College of Commerce, Bangalore, but discontinued. Ramya is known in Tamil and Telugu film world as Divya or Divya Spandana, which is her original name.
She is considered as a bold girl and is also referred to as Golden Girl. The last controversy she got entangled in was regarding the Kannada movie, Dandam Dashagunam. She was so upset with the episode that she had announced her retirment from acting. She later agreed continue under pressure from her fans.
She had also announced that another expected hit of hers, Sanju Weds Geeta, would be her last film. She is one of the producers of the movie and the posters proudly scream, ‘Sandalwood Queen Ramya Presents’. The producers Pramod Narayan and Nagashekar started the film and Ramya is said to have helped them in the completion of the movie.
In the south, films and politics have always had a close connection. Sources close to her said that she has an ambition to be in politics with an aim to cleanse the dirt that has partly the smeared the film world

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