Kothapalli Geetha
Member of Parliament for Araku
In office
16 May 2014 – 23 May 2019
Preceded byKishore Chandra Deo
Succeeded byGoddeti Madhavi
ConstituencyAraku
Personal details
Born (1971-02-04) 4 February 1971
Thimmapuram, East Godavari, Andhra Pradesh
Political partyBhartiya Janata Party[1]
Other political
affiliations		YSRCP Party (before 2019), Independent
SpouseParuchuri Rama Koteshwar Rao
Children2
EducationBachelor of Arts (1989), Bachelor of Education (1990)

Kothapalli Geetha is an Indian Politician and a former member of parliament from Araku (Lok Sabha constituency), Andhra Pradesh. She won the 2014 Indian general election from Araku Constituency in a reserved Scheduled Tribe (ST) seat being a Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party (YSRCP) candidate.[2][3] She started the Jana Jagruti Party in 2018. She later joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on 2019.[4]

Political career

Geetha was elected as a MP from Araku (Lok Sabha constituency) as YSRCP candidate from the (ST) community.[2][3] She started, the Jana Jagruti Party, a new political party on 24 August 2018 with the aim of challenging the state's caste politics.[5] In June 2019, She joined the BJP in a meeting with Amit Shah and Ram Madhav.[6]

A petition was filed against Geeta in 2016 claiming that she was not a member of the ST community as she contested in the general elections 2014 in a reserved seat for ST community from Aaraku Parliamentary Constituency and won the elections.[2] An investigation committee formed for the probe and the district magistrate stated that she did not belong to the ST community.[7]

Family and early life

Geetha was born on February 4, 1971, in Thimmapuram, East Godavari, Andhra Pradesh. She was born to Kothapalli Jacob and Lizzamma. She married P.R. Koteswara Rao on August 28, 1989. She has a son and a daughter.[8]

Geetha completed her Bachelor of Arts in the year 1989, Bachelor of Education in the year 1990, both from Andhra University.[9]

Lawsuits

Punjab national bank case

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on 30 June 2015 filed a chargesheet against Geetha and her Husband, the managing director of Visweswara Infrastructure, and three others for alleged criminal conspiracy to defraud a branch of the Punjab National Bank in Hyderabad up to ₹42 crore.[10] The CBI reported that the accused gave wrong details to the bank and allegedly cheated the bank which led to the bank losing ₹42.79 crore.[11] Later, her husband was convicted by a special judicial magistrate court and he was ordered to pay the bank ₹25.25 crore and sentenced to two years of simple imprisonment. However, the court acquitted Geetha.[12]

The Punjab National Bank later sued Geetha and her husband in December 2016 for not paying dues worth ₹81.21 crore.[12]

References

  1. ↑ @Geethak_MP (18 June 2019). "Heartfelt regards to Hon'ble @AmitShah ji & @rammadhavbjp ji for heartfully inviting me & giving me an opportunity…" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  2. 1 2 3 "Lok Sabha election 2019: Araku lone ST constituency in Andhra Pradesh". Hindustan Times. 17 March 2019. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
  3. 1 2 "Kothapalli Geetha releases party manifesto, first list | Vijayawada News - Times of India". The Times of India. 17 February 2021. Archived from the original on 17 February 2021. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
  4. ↑ "YSRCP demands Geetha's resignation - TeluguSquare.com". www.telugusquare.com. Archived from the original on 16 March 2016.
  5. ↑ "Araku MP Kothapalli Geetha launches Jana Jagruti Party in Vijayawada". The News Minute. 24 August 2018. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
  6. ↑ "Former Andhra MP Kothapalli Geetha joins BJP after meeting Amit Shah". The News Minute. 19 June 2019. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
  7. ↑ "Kothapalli Geetha on Her Cast Issue". tupaki.
  8. ↑ "Geetha Kothapalli | National Portal of India". 24 August 2018. Archived from the original on 24 August 2018. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
  9. ↑ "Kothapalli Geetha(Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party):Constituency- ARAKU(ANDHRA PRADESH) - Affidavit Information of Candidate". myneta.info. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
  10. ↑ "CBI files chargesheet against Araku MP". The Hindu. 1 July 2015. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
  11. ↑ "YSRC MP Charged with Cheating PNB". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
  12. 1 2 "PNB sues Member of Parliament from AP for ₹81-crore. YSRC former MP Kothapalli Geetha and her husband P Ramakoteswar Rao earned a reprieve from Telangana high court which on Friday stayed the five-year jail sentence awarded to them in the Punjab National Bank loan fraud case and granted them bail. default". @businessline. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
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