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 General elections were held in India in nine phases from 7 April to 12 May 2014 to elect the members of the 16th Lok Sabha. With 834 million registered voters, they were the largest-ever elections in the world until being surpassed by the 2019 ...

from Araku Constituency in a reserved Scheduled Tribe (ST) seat being a Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party (YSRCP) candidate. She started the Jana Jagruti Party in 2018. She later joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on 2019.

Political career

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

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and

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. 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. An investigation committee formed for the probe and the district magistrate stated that she did not belong to the ST community.

Family and early life

Geetha was born on February 4, 1971, in

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

Lawsuits

Punjab national bank case

The

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(CBI) on 30 June 2015 filed a

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

References

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