Jetti Eshwari Bai[a] (1 December 1918 – 25 February 1991) was an Indian politician, a Member of the Legislative Assembly and president of the Republican Party of India.
[2] She founded the Civic Rights Committee (CRC) in the 1960s to contest the Hyderabad municipal elections as an apolitical party.
In 1962 general elections she lost on RPI ticket from Yellareddy Assembly constituency, but won in the 1967 polls.
[citation needed] She also fought for separate statehood for Telangana in 1969 and was imprisoned at the Chanchalguda jail in Hyderabad.
[citation needed] Her daughter, J. Geeta Reddy, is a politician with the Indian National Congress party.