Haripriya Badavath was born on 1 May 1985 in Kothagudem of present-day Telangana (then in Andhra Pradesh) to Seetharam and Darjan.

[2][3] In 2006, they started Hari Singh Education Institutions which has four private schools and four junior colleges in Tekulapalli and Hyderabad.

[1] In June 2021, Banoth announced that she would adopt two orphaned children from Yellandu who lost both their parents at a young age, on a response to the minister K. T. Rama Rao's tweet.

[4] Hari Singh was an active member of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) which influenced Haripriya to join the politics.

[7][8] In February 2019, Banoth carried out a hunger strike for 36 hours demanding the establishment of steel plant in Bayyaram.