India, Jan. 11 -- After wooing Tamils in Mumbai by getting ex-BJP Tamil Nadu chief Annamalai to campaign in eight wards, the city BJP also intends getting actor Khushboo to woo them. Come civic elections and it is not uncommon for political parties to fly in popular actors from TN like Khusboo, Nagma, Anand Raj, Sarathkumar and even leaders like P Chidambaram to woo the Tamil vote banks.

"There are over two million Tamilians in Mumbai," said K C Murugeshan, general secretary of the BJP's South India cell. "Although we are spread over 50 wards in areas such as Poisar, Sion-Koliwada and Dharavi and play a decisive role in 15 of the 227 wards, there is very little Tamil representation in candidatures among the main political parties."

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