That Araku MP Kothapalli Geetha is an SC and not ST was confirmed again six months ago when the District Level Scrutiny Officers’ Committee of East Godavari, headed by Joint Collector, in its report said that her brother and his family members were SCs.
“But the Tribal Welfare Department is not taking any action and sitting on it,” Paderu MLA G. Eswari said here on Wednesday.
“We don’t think that any action will be taken on the report since the Minister for Social Welfare and Tribal Welfare is not allowing any action to be taken,” Ms. Eswari alleged.
“The district-level committee, in its report during November 2014, had declared that K. Vivekananda Kumar (Ms. Geetha’s brother) and his family members were SCs and the same was announced by the then Collector of East Godavari on December 28, 2014,” Ms. Eswari said.
Ms. Geetha was elected on the YSR Congress ticket but later aligned herself with the Telugu Desam and kept herself away from the YSRC.
The party had lodged a complaint against Ms. Geetha to Lok Sabha Speaker that she was sailing with the TDP, the Paderu MLA said.
She also alleged that Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu was using Ms. Geetha as a tool to go ahead with bauxite mining in Visakha Agency.
