KRISHNAGIRI: Slain forest brigand Veerappan 's daughter Vidhya Rani , who is an advocate, joined the BJP along with thousand others in the presence of the party national general secretary Muralidhar Raoon Saturday. Former Union minister Pon Radhakrishnan was also present at the event.

Vidhya Rani, who received the party identity card from Rao, said she would work for the needy and downtrodden. "My father's ways might have been wrong, but he always lived for the poor." Addressing the gathering, Rao, who is also incharge of TN BJP, vowed to quit politics if DMK chief MK Stalin were to prove that the CAA was against Indian Muslims. He said Stalin can't continue his cheap politics by spreading false information. "Where was he (Stalin) when thousands of Tamils were killed in Sri Lanka? It is a joke that he is now talking about citizenship to Sri Lanka Tamils."

