Jetti Eshwari Bai (1 December 1918 – 25 February 1991) was an Indian legislator, a Member of the Legislative Assembly and President of the Republican Party of India. She worked for the upliftment of the backward classes who were subjected to slavery and caste discrimination for ages by the upper Castes.
Eshwari Bai was brought into the world on 1 December 1918. She began her profession as an Teacher in Paropakarini School in Secunderabad and later began a school named Geetha Vidyalaya in Chilkalguda, Secunderabad. She held workshops for the unfortunate ladies of the region, who picked up making, fitting, painting and so on., assisting financially unfortunate ladies with getting to help themselves and their families.
Bai was chosen as a councilor of the Secunderabad Corporation in 1950.
She established the Civic Rights Committee (CRC) during the 1960s to challenge the Hyderabad metropolitan decisions as an objective party. It won four seats in those decisions.
Inspired by B. R. Ambedkar, Bai joined the Scheduled Castes Federation (SCF) and in 1958, when SCF was renamed as the Republican Party of India (RPI), she was chosen as General secretary. She proceeded to turn into the leader of RPI later. In 1962 general decisions she lost on RPI ticket from Yellareddy Gathering supporters, yet won in the 1967 surveys. She was the Vice Chairperson of the Telangana Praja Samithi (TPS) and won a ticket in 1972 decisions again from Yellareddy on a RPI – TPS ticket.
As a chairperson of the Women and Child Welfare, Bai was instrumental in bringing legislation for free education of girl students up to higher education. She was the secretary of Indian Conference of Social Welfare and Member from the Indian Red Cross Society. She additionally battled for discrete statehood for Telangana in 1969 and was imprisoned at the Chanchalguda prison in Hyderabad.
Personal life
Bai had four siblings and a sister. She was hitched to Jetti Laxminarayana, a dental specialist from Pune, at 13 years old. Her little girl, J. Geeta Reddy, is a legislator with the Indian Public Congress party.
Bai died on 25 February 1991.
The Eshwari Bai Memorial Award was organized in her honor.
