File picture of actor-politician Khushbu.

Actor-politician Khushbu from Tamil Nadu will become a member of the Congress party today."Kushbu will join our party in the presence of party chief Sonia Gandhi in New Delhi," Tamil Nadu Congress President EVKS Elangovan told the Press trust of India.Khushbu quit the DMK, headed by M Karunanidhi, in June. She had joined the party in 2010, when it was in power in Tamil Nadu. While announcing her exit, she said her "hard work for the DMK had been a one-way path."

The Congress has been reduced to virtual spectator in Tamil Nadu politics. It did not win a single parliamentary seat in the May election; the ruling AIADMK, led by J Jayalalitha, won all but two.In the last state election in 2011, the Congress won just five seats. But recently, the party was split with senior leader and former union minister GK Vasan announcing the launch of his own outfit.