TIRUPATI 26th May: The BJP floor leader, G. Kishen Reddy, has opined that the resignation from the party of cine actress, Vijayashanti, will not cast any shadow on the party's activities in the near future.

Speaking to reporters here on Thursday, he recalled that the actress had been trying to speak to the party high command on how the Congress and Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) were taking the people of the region for a ride. She had but to take the extreme step, when there was no immediate assurance from the party on the issue.

"She believed in her ideology and hence stuck to her conscience," he said, adding that her decision to resign from the party was a natural fallout as nobody in a disciplined party like BJP could launch agitations on their own.

On her remarks that Chandrababu Naidu was responsible for the BJP's ambiguous stand on the issue, Mr. Reddy said that the remarks were made after she quit the party and hence there was no need for him to react.