The TRS has demanded the government to install a statue of the late professor Jayashankar.
The TRS has asked the government to set up a grand and befitting memorial for the professor in Hyderabad. The TRS also wants the Ekasila Park in Warangal to be named after Jayashankar.
TRS demands memorial park, statues for Jayashankar
2011/6/28 8:51:50 The Telangana Rashtra Samithi on Tuesday demanded that the state government construct a ‘memorial park’, apart from a bronze statue on the Tank Bund as a mark of respect to Telangana ideologue Professor Kothapalli Jayashankar who passed away last week.
Briefing media persons on the TRS’s Executive Committee meeting, party general secretary Madhusudhana Chary told media persons that the resolution demanding the memorial park in the city and bronze statue for Prof Jayashankar were adopted unanimously.
The Executive Committee also decided to push the state government to rename the Ekashila Park in Hanmakonda, where Prof Jayashankar’s body was kept for public darshan, after the Telangana ideologue. Besides this, the TRS also demanded that the state government install a bronze statue of Prof Jayashankar in the same park.
The meeting decided to appeal the state government to introduce a chapter on the life of Prof Jayashankar in the high school textbooks. Besides this, the TRS will also install bronze statue at Telangana Bhavan.
The party’s state executive committee meeting was chaired by party president K Chandrasekhar Rao.(INN)
The mentor of the Telangana movement Professor Jayashankar is dead. Jayashankar passed away at 11.30 this morning. He was battling with cancer for some time. He was 77.
Jayashankar breathed his last at his residence in Hanamkonda where he was shifted from the hospital upon his request.
Jayashankar cremated, T activists damage NTR’s statue
2011/6/22 8:57:15 Thousands of pro-Telangana activists, on Wednesday bid a tearful farewell to Telangana ideologue Prof K Jayashankar, who died due to throat cancer on Tuesday.
However, the last journey of the late separate Telangana spearhead was marred by scenes of vandalism and desecration, after the activists attacked and damaged the statue of former chief minister and Telugu Desam Party founder NT Rama Rao.
The body was taken in a procession from Ekashila Park in Hanmakonda where it was kept to enable the people to pay their last respects, to Padmakshigutta cremation ground in Warangal via Hanumakonda bus stand. At Padmakshigutta cremation ground, Jayashankar’s adopted son Brahmam performed the last rites and consigned his body to flames.
Those who paid their last respects to the late Telangana ideologue included Telangana Rashtra Samithi president K Chandrasekhar Rao, Telangana Political Joint Action committee convener Kodandaram, students, lawyers, academic staff, non-teaching staff and others.
TRS Floor Leader Etela Rajender, MLA Harish Rao and many other prominent leaders were seen taking part in the funeral procession. The Telangana activists raised ‘Jai Telangana’ slogans right through the entire length of Prof Jayashankar’s last journey.
On the way, the Telangana activists paid tributes to the departed Telangana ideologue at the Martyrs’ Memorial.
In an unsavoury note, some activists went berserk and indulged in vandalism, damaging the statue of former chief minister and TDP founder N T Rama Rao at Public Gardens in Hanmakonda.
The activists also ransacked the furniture at the District Congress Committee office.
Earlier, the activists attacked the Minister for Handlooms and Textiles P Shankar Rao, who had come to pay his tributes to Prof Jayashankar.(INN)
The tallest statue in the state so far is the 54 feet statue of Gautam Budhha on the Rock of Gibralator. The distinction will now go to the statue of Annamayya.
The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam is installing the statue at the Thallapaka crossroads in Kadapa. The statue will be about 108 feet in height. The work will commence shortly and it will take about a year for the statue to come up.
T activists obstruct Ponnala, MP at Jayashankar’s residence
2011/6/21 10:35:21 Pro-Telangana activists on Tuesday demonstrated that even a solemn occasion like a funeral is not out of bounds for raising the separate statehood demand by obstructing Minister for Information Technology Ponnala Lakshmaiah as he was on his way to the residence of Telangana ideologue K Jayashankar to pay his respects to the departed soul.
Professor Jayashankar died of throat cancer earlier in the day.
The Telangana activists, raising ‘Jai Telangana’ slogans, attempted to attack the Information Technology Minister.
However, the police intervened and pacified the activists.
Under tight police cover, the Minister placed a wreath on Prof Jayashankar’s body and left the place.
Earlier, students of Kakatiya University Joint Action committee hurled chappals and stones on the convoy of MP Rajaiah when he came to pay his respects to departed Telangana ideologue Prof Jayashankar.
However, the police intervened and pacified the students. Later the MP paid his floral tributes to Prof Jayashankar.(INN)
2007/11/19 2:38:00 The Hyderabad brothers P Janardhan Reddy and Mari Sasidhar Reddy are taking the initiative to install a statue of the late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in Hyderabad today. Today is her 90th birth anniversary.
A statue ofIndira Gandhi is being installed at Shiparamam cross roads near Hitech city. P Janardhana Reddy has taken the initiative. Some congress party leaders are however grumbling and are not happy. The reason is that Janardhan Reedy is treating it as a personal affair rather than a party function.
Many congress leaders have not been informed about it nor have received any invitation. Verappa Moily will unveil the statue in the presence of chief minister Y S Rajashekar Reddy this afternoon.
2008/6/4 7:27:48 The TRS party ideologue and senior leader Dr. Jayashankar or nephew of K Chandrashekar Rao, Harish Rao were widely tipped to take over the reigns of the party if KCR stood firm in his decision to quit the party chief post.
But confirming the prediction in the media that this was a ploy by KCR to deflect the attention from the drubbing in the by polls, he took back his resignation this evening. Dr, Jayashankar and Harish Rao had hoped that KCR would nominate one of them as the party chief.
But the wily KCR did not give them a chance. He withdrew his resignation letter and vowed to continue the agitation for a separate Telangana.
2011/9/2 9:53:21 The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation has decided to install the statue of city's first Dalit mayor MR Shyam Rao as a tribute to his contribution for the city's development.
The statue will be installed at Masab Tank crossroads and a foundation stone for the same is likely to be laid on his death anniversary on September 23. Shyam Rao was the mayor of Hyderabad from 1963-64. Later, he was also the part of PV Narasimha Rao's cabinet from 1972-75 and held Sports portfolio. He was very active in the Congress party and was elevated to the post of PCC General Secretary in 1982 and was also the Hyderabad City Congress president.
Congress MLC MS Prabhakar is Shyam Rao's son. (INN)
2011/6/21 3:26:09 Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Tuesday expressed grief over the death of Professor Kothapalli Jayashankar.
The Chief Minister said Prof Jayashankar was an intellectual and prominent academician.
Mr Kiran Kumar Reddy recalled the yeoman services of Prof Jayashankar as the Vice Chancellor of Kakatiya University and Registrar of Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages.
“He also served in the Board of Governors, Regional Engineering College, Warangal, and in several Working Groups of UGC etc,” Mr Kiran Kumar Reddy pointed out in a statement.
The Chief Minister said Prof. Jayashankar worked as the President and General Secretary, Government College Teachers Association.
“He was known as the ideologue of the Telangana movement and published a large number of papers in the areas of Economic Development and Educational Economics,” Mr Kiran Kumar Reddy added.
The Chief Minister conveyed heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family members.(INN)
TRS playing games on Jayashankar’s body to wipe out TDP: Kadiam
2011/6/23 9:42:26 The Telugu Desam Party on Thursday alleged that the Telangana Rashtra Samithi was playing games on the body of Professor Kothapalli Jayashankar as part of a larger conspiracy to wipe out the TDP from the Telangana region.
Telugu Desam Party leader from Telangana Kadiam Srihari told media persons at the NTR Trust Bhavan that the TRS has stooped to its lowest levels yet by trying to derive political mileage from the body of Telangana ideologue Prof Jayashankar.
Mr Srihari was speaking after releasing a poster, `Jai Telangana, Jai TDP, Jai Chandrababu Naidu.’
He said that, “The TRS is playing games on the body of Prof Jayashankar in order to get political mileage. The TTDP Forum members were unable to even have a glimpse of Prof Jayashankar’s body as the TRS wants to get mileage on his death.”
Mr Srihari further expressed serious objections of the TRS trying to project Prof Jayashankar as belonging to one particular group in Telangana. “Prof Jayashankar belonged to all sections of Telangana people and we have to fulfil his aspirations,” he said.
He alleged the Congress and TRS have cheated the Telangana people in the name of separate statehood and were targeting the TDP unnecessarily.
Mr Srihari said that the poster released by him would create awareness among the people of the region about the development which took place in Telangana during TDP rule and party’s stand on contentious issue.
TTDP Forum convener Errabelli Dayakar Rao and senior leader Devender Goud were also present.(INN)
Jayashankar’s death a major blow to T movement: Nagam
2011/6/21 4:22:55 Describing it as a ‘major blow’ to the separate statehood movement, suspended Telugu Desam Party MLA Nagam Janardhan Reddy on Tuesday expressed grief at the demise of Telangana ideologue Prof Kothapalli Jayashankar.
Talking media persons at Assembly Media Point, Mr Janardhan Reddy called on all Telangana leaders to unite and fulfil Prof Jayashankar’s dream, while stated that his death was great loss to the Telangana agitation.
“Fulfilling his dream of a separate Telangana state would be a fitting tribute to late Prof Jayashankar,” appealed Mr Janardhan Reddy to the leaders from the region.
Meanwhile, TDP MLA Harishwar Reddy said the Telangana region has lost a great leader with the passing away of the academician.
Pradesh Congress Committee president Botsa Satyanarayana too expressed his condolences and shock at the death of Prof Jayashankar. He also expressed sympathies to the family members of the departed leader.
Talking to media persons at Gandhi Bhavan, Mr Satyanarayana stated that Prof Jayashankar had played an active role in the formation of Telangana Rashtra Samithi and in the separate Telangana statehood movement.
Addressing media persons at the Congress Legislature party office, Government Whip Kodra Murali said that Prof Jayashankar sacrificed his entire life for the cause of Telangana, right from his youth.
Minister for Rural Development D Manikyavara Prasad Rao also expressed his grief over the death of Prof Jayashankar.(INN)
2011/6/23 4:26:36 Textiles Minister P Shankar Rao on Thursday revealed that he had forwarded a proposal to rename the Kakatiya University in Warangal district after Telangana leader Professor Kothapalli Jayashankar who passed away on Tuesday.
The Textiles Minister, who faced rough weather when he visited Warangal recently in connection with the demise of Prof Jayashankar, told media persons at the Secretariat that he had proposed to rename the Kakatiya University as Jayashankar University in memory of the leader who had struggled and sacrificed for the separate statehood for Telangana.
Referring to the attack on him in the district, Dr Shankar Rao asserted that it was the work of unsocial elements and such violence only resulted in hampering the progress for achieving Telangana.
Stating that the attack on him was unpardonable, the Minister informed that leaders of other political parties also condemned it.
He is understood to have received calls from overseas condemning the attack incident.(INN)
TDP postpones agitations in Telangana: Jayashankar’s death
2011/6/22 8:53:53 The Telugu Desam Party has postponed its agitations to highlight the problems faced by the farmers in the Telangana region, from the earlier announced June 23 and June 24 to June 25, due to the demise of Telangana ideologue Professor Kothapalli Jayashankar.
Talking to media persons at the NTR Trust Bhavan, Telugu Desam Party Telangana Forum convener Errabelli Dayakar Rao on Wednesday said that the party has decided to postponed the agitations as a mark of respect to Prof Jayashankar and in deference to the three day mourning period announced by the Telangana Political Joint Action Committee.
Mr Dayakar Rao however made it clear that the agitations would go ahead as scheduled on June 23 and June 24 in the Seemandhra regions.
He called upon all Telangana leaders to make collective efforts for fulfilling the dream of Professor Jayashankar of a separate Telangana state.
Condemning the reports of pro-Telangana activists resorting to attack MPs who had come to pay tributes to the departed soul, Mr Dayakar Rao said that such incidents would send a wrong message to the people. He advised the protestors to observe restraint.
He expressed regrets for not being able to go to Warangal and pay tributes to Prof Jayashankar. (INN)
BJP activists stop installation of NTR statue at VSKP
2008/5/28 6:33:06 The BJP Yuva Morcha activists stopped the unveiling of a statue of the late TDP founder NT Rama Rao in Visakhapatnam. The local TDP workers arranged a program on the occasion of NT Rama Rao’s birth anniversary and invited union minister and NT Rama Rao’s eldest daughter Purandrareshwari to unveil the statue.
But the BJP Yuva Sena objected to this. Their contention was that the statue was that of NT Rama Rao as Lord Krishna. The BJP leaders took objection to NTR being projected as God.
2011/8/6 9:43:31 “There are many people who are taking part in the struggle for Telangana. Some of them are ‘part timers,’ some ‘full timers,’ but Professor Jayashankar was a ‘life timer,’ said Telangana Rashtra Samithi president K Chandrasekhar Rao on Saturday.
KCR was paying homage to Telangana ideologue Professor Jayashankar at a function held at Telangana Bhavan to mark the departed leader’s birth anniversary.
Reminding that the late leader had devoted his entire life for the cause of Telangana, the TRS chief said that, “in any movement there are part timers and full timers but Prof Jayashankar was a ‘life timer’ for the Telangana movement. He worked till his last breath for the Telangana.”
The TRS president unveiled a bronze bust of Prof Jayashankar on this occasion and said that, “the late leader lived a life for which we can say that “Jayashankar is Telangana and Telangana is Jayashankar. In his death we have lost a friend and philosopher and his death is a great loss for the movement and for him.”
KCR also added that, “whenever in trouble, he consoled us and gave us good advises, he gave us inspiration and courage to continue our fight.”
Criticizing the statement of Union Home Minister P Chidambaram in the Lok Sabha on Friday, the TRS chief wondered, “Is Mr Chidambaram not aware of Article 3 of the Constitution prepared by Dr Ambedkar?” He continued, “What is the use of the Constitution when it is being ignored?” The TRS chief further said, “Mr Chidambaram has repeated the same old stories and there is nothing new in his speech of Friday. “
Lashing out at the Union Home Minister for saying that political parties in Andhra Pradesh should open their minds on the issue, KCR said that what is the use of referring the issue to the Centre.
“The issue was raised in the Parliament because the political parties in the state are not favouring the demand,” he pointed out.(INN)
2011/3/8 0:06:20 Yesteryear great comedian late Rajababu’s statue will be unveiled on the banks of river Godavari at his home town Rajhamundry on 9th of April by Dasari Narayanarao. MAA (Movie Artists Association) president Murali Mohan has donated the amount for making a bronze statue. Rajababu’s statue will be placed beside his beloved friend late Shobanbabu statue. Rajababu’s sons who were in US will comedown to attend this function. Later, MAA will conduct a program ‘Hasya Swarnothswam’ in which 70 Telugu comedians will participate to pay rich tributes to the great comedian.
2011/6/21 3:19:34 The separate Telangana statehood movement lost one of its most capable generals on Tuesday after Telangana ideologue, and founder-member of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi, Professor Kothapalli Jayashankar passed away due to cancer at his residence in Warangal, at the age of 76.
Professor Jayashankar had only recently been shifted to his hometown in Hanamkonda in Warangal after being discharged by the Asian Institute of Gastroenterology in Hyderabad.
Born on August 6, 1934 in Akkampeta in Atmakur mandal in Hanmakonda, Prof Jayashankar remained a bachelor.
A man respected not only for his educational background, (Prof Jayashankar completed his MA in Economics from the Banaras University) and Ph D in Economics and his B Ed from the Osmania University, but also for his ability to try to make his dream of a separate Telangana statehood into a near-reality.
Prof Jayashankar is largely seen as one of the main reasons that the Telangana statehood dream is on the verge of being realized, having fought for the separate state right through his life.
He started his fight for Telangana during his Intermediate student days, having walked out of the class in protest against the reorganization of the state in 1952.
As a young man, he submitted a comprehensive report to the Fazal Ali Commission in 1954.
His analytical approach to the problems faced by the people of Telangana and the reasons behind the backwardness of the region, backed by his ability to write well on the subject, sent many jitters down the spines of integrationists right through the years. He authorized articles and research papers on various aspects of Telangana in English and Telugu, backing his reasoning with arguments and points relating to the region’s history, education, employment, irrigation and culture.
Prof Jayashankar had time and again said that the discrimination and unequal distribution of water was the main reason behind the backwardness of Telangana and the root of the separate Telangana demand.
Prof Jayashankar served as Vice Chancellor of Kakatiya University from 1991 to 1994, besides serving as the Registrar of Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages (CIEFL), Hyderabad (1982–91), the Registrar of Kakatiya University, Warangal (1979–81), Principal of CKM College, Warangal (1975–79), on the Board of Governors of the Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages (CIEFL), Hyderabad, on the Board of Governors of the Regional Engineering College, Warangal, on the Planning Board of the Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, was on the Search Committee for appointing the Vice Chancellor of CIEFL, was on the Board of Andhra Pradesh State Council of Higher Education, besides many other important posts.
Professor Jayashankar’s body has been placed in the Ekashila Park to enable people to pay their respects. The last rites would be conducted at the Siva Mukti Dhamam in Hanmakonda, but the day and time has not been announced yet.
Meanwhile expressions of shock and grief have been flooding in from people of all walks of life, including leading politicians.(INN)
Deadline stands, no agitations due to Jayashankar’s death: Kodandaram
2011/6/26 9:55:33 Accepting that the deadline of June 25 for the elected representatives from the region to resign has passed and the Telangana Political Joint Action Committee has not acted against the Legislators who had not heeded the deadline, TPJAC convenor M Kodandaram on Sunday said that the agitation for Telangana is currently subdued due to the demise of its ideologue Professor Kothapalli Jayashankar.
However, Prof Kodandaram warned the elected representatives that there was no question of extending the deadline the TPJAC had set.
“The is no change in the deadline set for elected representatives from Telangana to resign from their posts as the Centre has not announced a clear statement on Telangana state yet,” he told media persons at Chotuppal in Nalgonda district.
“The TPJAC’s activities have been subdued due to the demise of Telangana ideologue Prof K Jayashankar. We will resume, and in fact intensify our agitation for Telangana after a reasonable time, in homage to Professor Jayashankar,” Prof Kodandaram promised.
He hastened to point out that all agitational programmes, announced earlier, would begin from July 3.
The separate Telangana spearhead took the opportunity to reiterate his demand that the state government conduct the recruitment test for the posts of Sub-Inspectors of police only after the Clause 14 (F) is deleted from the Presidential Order.(INN)
TPJAC suspends all programs, TRS to observe 3 day mourning
2011/6/21 3:24:30 Expressing his immense shock and grief at the passing away of Telangana Rashtra Samithi founder member and academician Professor Kothapalli Jayashankar, TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao on Saturday declared the party would observe a three-day mourning period as a mark of respect to the departed soul.
Meanwhile, Telangana Political Joint Action Committee convenor said that all official programmes and functions would be suspended for three days as a mark of respect to the late Telangana ideologue.
Talking to media persons separately after placing wreaths on the body of the late leader, both Chandrasekhar Rao and Prof Kodandaram called on the people of the region to fulfill Prof Jayashankar’s dream of a separate Telangana state.
The two leaders, apart from a host of other leaders and admirers of Prof Jayashankar, rushed to Warangal in order to pay homage to the man who was instrumental in bringing the movement for a separate state to its present stage, on the verge of becoming a reality.(INN)
Why no Telugu Talli statue in SA regions wonders KCR
2011/8/1 8:46:16
Telangana Rashtra Samithi president K Chandrasekhar Rao on Monday criticised the Seemandhra leaders for not installing Telugu Talli statues in their regions while the statue of Potti Sriramulu was present in Telangana region.
He alleged that the Seemandhra leaders are making lame excuses about this.
KCR also said that Potti Sriramulu was a great man who launched fast unto death for eleven days and Jawahar Lal Nehru announced formation of the state.
He was speaking while welcoming several leaders from Chennur Assembly constituency in Adilabad district in the Telangana Rashtra Samithi fold on Monday evening.
KCR also announced a massive public meeting at Chennur on August 10, besides a function to pay homage to Prof Jayashankar on August 6 and a Mahila conference on August 9.
He said that the Chennur MLA Nallala Udailu, Adilabad district TRS president Puranam Satish Kumar and others will participate.
Those who joined TRS include Chairman Chennur Marketing committee M Raji Reddy, MPTC members, M Sttayanarayana, K Venkatesh, J Bapu , sarpanches and others.(INN)
Yesteryear great comedian late Rajababu’s statue will be unveiled on the banks of river Godavari at his home town Rajhamundry on 9th of April by Dasari Narayanarao. MAA (Movie Artists Association) president Murali Mohan has donated the amount for making a bronze statue. Rajababu’s statue will be placed beside his beloved friend late Shobanbabu statue. Rajababu’s sons who were in US will comedown to attend this function. Later, MAA will conduct a program ‘Hasya Swarnothswam’ in which 70 Telugu comedians will participate to pay rich tributes to the great comedian. 
