Ruling out her resignation from YSR Congress, Araku MP Kottapalli Geetha has asserted that she is being prevented from working by the party and she complained to the Committee on Privileges and the Speaker.
She told a press conference here on Wednesday that she would abide by the decision of the Speaker of the Lok Sabha. She said a “campaign of lies” had been launched against her in the media. She was not involved in party activities and even when the party president came to her constituency she was not given any information.
Criticising the state of affairs in YSRC, she wanted the party to make it clear whether Paderu MLA Giddi Eswari had been authorised to attack her. Terming her ignorant, Ms. Geetha asked whether the party was blind when it cleared her candidature and gave her the B-form. “Charges were being made against me as the party lacked the courage to suspend me,” she said. The MP exuded confidence that no decision that would create problems to tribal people in bauxite mining would be taken. Mining was a Central subject and she had already represented the problem to the Prime Minister and the Union Mining Minister. Her association with TDP and NDA was only to pursue development in her constituency. But she was termed a rebel against the party and a mudslinging campaign was started against her, she alleged.
