Geetha Shivarajkumar, the wife of Kannada superstar Shiva Rajkumar, will join the Congress party on Friday. Geetha will join the Congress at midday at the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) office in Bengaluru, according to the sources. She will join the party in the presence of KPCC president DK Shivakumar.
Geetha is the daughter of former Karnataka Chief Minister late S Bangarappa. She had abortively contested the Lok Sabha elections in 2014 on a Janata Dal (Secular) ticket from Shivamogga.
For the past few weeks, she has been campaigning for her brother Madhu Bangarappa, who is contesting for 10 May election in the Sorab Assembly constituency on Congress ticket.
The results of the elections for the 224 Assembly constituencies in Karnataka will be declared on 13 May.
