TRS demands memorial park, statues for Jayashankar
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)
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TRS demands memorial park, statues for Jayashankar
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.
Massive memorial meet on Jayashankar’s birth anniversary
2011/7/30 3:50:20 Telangana Political Joint Action Committee convenor M Kodandaram on Saturday urged all pro-statehood units in the region to dedicate their agitations or programmes for separate Telangana state scheduled to be held on August 6 to late Professor Kothappali Jayashankar, who passed away on June 21.
Talking to media persons at the Somajiguda Press Club, Prof Kodandaram said that late Prof Jayashankar’s birthday falls on August 6 and the people of the region should dedicate all their efforts for separate statehood to the late Telangana ideologue.
“A memorial programme will be organised at Prof Jayashankar’s birthplace, Akkampeta in Atmakur mandal on the morning of August 6 and later in the afternoon of the same day, a massive public meeting would be organised in Hanmakonda,” Prof Kodandaram said.
The TPJAC chief also urged people from Seemandhra regions who have settled in Telangana to participate in the memorial function at Hanmankonda in large numbers to pay respects to Prof Jayashankar, especially student, industrialists and owners of private travels.
Prof Kodandaram was referring to the large number of private commercial vehicles which pass through and conduct business in Hanmakonda.
The TPJAC Steering Committee will again meet on August 12 to discuss the mass strike scheduled to go ahead from August 17, he said. However, the venue for this Steering Committee meeting has not been finalised yet.
When asked if the employees’ leaders would go for talks with the government on the strike threat, Prof Kodandaram said that the employees can go for discussion, but any meetings would be futile since it is the Centre which has to take a decision on the separate statehood issue.(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)
Statues to be allowed 25 years after death: Minister
2012/1/30 9:15:56 The state cabinet sub-committee has met today to discuss the ongoing statues desecration cases and to draft the rules and regulations for installing the statues in the state.
While, the committee members gave number of suggestions in this regard, Minister Dokka Manikya Varaprasad expressing his grief said ''Nowadays we are seeing even the statues of rowdies and murderers in some places. I have observed some in Guntur. There should be certain guidelines for installing the statues. I think the statue of any person should be installed 25 years after his death only, if people still remember him and demands for his statue. I agree late YSR is a great person and his statues can be spared from this condition. However, there should be certain guidelines for everything."
The cabinet sub committee's meeting and its decisions seems to be mainly aimed to control YS.Jagan Mohan Reddy who is installing hundreds of statues of his father late YSR. However, one can't suspect the honesty of sub-committee as it is expected to find a solution to the ongoing desecration of statues of eminent personalities in the state.
2012/4/11 0:39:11 Telagana Jagruthi president K Kavitha would sit on a 48-hour hunger strike demanding installation of Dr BR Ambedkar statue in the premises of State Legislative Assembly.
Talking to reporters here on Wednesday, Kavitha said that the she would begin the 48-hour hunger strike from April 14 at Indira Park. She demanded that Ambedkar's statue be installed next to the Mahatma Gandhi's statue in the assembly premises. She said that all political parties have made representation to Speaker Nadendla Manohar requesting him to take steps for the installation of Ambedkar's statue. However, she said no action has been taken in this regard.
Kavitha also demanded that the State Government should install the statues of Telangana leaders like Kommaram Bhem at Tank Bund. Else, she warned that pro-Telangana activists would halt the re-installation of statues, damaged during Million March, at Tank Bund. She said that large-scale protests would be held across the region if the demands for installation of Ambedkar statue in assembly and Telangana leaders' statues at Tank Bund were not met. (INN)
2012/2/16 4:54:08 Mala Mahanadu state president Karem Shivaji on Thursday demanded that the State Government take steps to protect Dr B R Ambedkar's statues in the State.
Talking to media persons, Karem Shivaji stated that the government should frame a stern law to deal with those vested elements who are defacing the statues of national leaders.
In protest against the desecration of Ambedkar's statues in the State, particularly in Amalapuram in East Godavari district, he said that Mala Mahanadu would organize `Chalo Hyderabad’ rally on March 21. He said he would also being his indefinite hunger fast on that day.
Karem also appealed to the State Government to take steps for total utilisation of SC/ST sub-plan funds. Alleging that SC/ST funds have been misused in many constituencies, he appealed to the government to take serious action against the officials responsible for it. (INN)
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)
The brazen T protestors have not only shamelessly defended the demolition of statues on Tank Bund but they are now coming out in the open and defending their heinous act.
Some writers and poets from Telangana conducted a Swabhiman march on Tank Bund today. They raised slogans defending the felling of the statues. They even threatened the government with dire consequences if demolished statues were reinstalled.
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.
2011/6/21 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)
2012/1/23 8:58:35 Some unidentified miscreants have demolished statues of Dr.Ambedkar in several areas in Amalapuram in East Godavari district on yesterday night. The raged backward leaders have attacked the suspects and the situation turn serious with both sides start hurling stones at each other. The small group of police force deployed fails to control the mobs and asks for additional forces. BC leaders have blocked all the main roads connected to the city and demands for immediate arrest of the culprits. The situation is very tense, but under police control now.
2011/9/18 6:13:42 YS.Jagan Mohan Reddy has unveiled number of statues of his father and former Chief Minister of the state late YS.Rajashekar Reddy through out the districts where he has visited during his Odarpu Yatra. But, the rivalry between the local groups in those districts leads to vandalizing the statues of late YSR.
According to reports, some miscreants in Nandikotkur, Brahmankotkur, and Garlapalli and in some other places in Kurnool district have vandalized the statues of late YSR. Leaders of YSR Congress party have lodged a police complaint in this regard.
2011/9/14 18:19:41 Former Chief Minister late YS.Rajashekar Reddy fans in US are planning to conduct a memorial meeting on September 17th at Behrens Ranch, 2503 Arbor drive, Round Clock, TX 78681 US, on the eve of his 2nd death anniversary. Hence, they request all the people to join them in the memorial meeting. Those, need any further information about this program can contact the organizers at the above address.
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)
Leaders, T protagonists express grief at Jayashankar’s death
2011/6/21 3:22:43 Expressions of shock and grief over the passing away of Telangana ideologue and academician Professor Kothapalli Jayashankar began to flood in, even as leaders and admirers of the man who made the separate state his goal in life, made a beeline to Warangal to pay their last respects on Tuesday.
Speaking to media persons here after laying a wreath on the body of the late academician, Telangana Rashtra Samithi president K Chandrasekhar Rao said that the separate statehood movement has lost one of its most loyal soldier and a great leader.
Prof Jayashankar was the founder-member of the TRS.
KCR said that the Professor’s death was a huge loss for the Telangana region in general and to the separate statehood movement in particular. He called on all the Telangana protagonists to work with renewed vigour to fulfill Prof Jayashankar’s dream of a separate Telangana state.
Paying floral tributes to departed soul at his residence, Telangana Political Joint Action Committee convenor M Kodandaram too echoed KCR’s words, saying that Prof Jayashankar death was major loss to Telangana movement.
He too called upon Telangana leaders and activists to fulfill the dream of Telangana state formation.
TRS Floor Leader in the state Assembly Etela Rajender, Telangana Jagruthi president K Kavitha and other TRS MLAs expressed grief over the Prof Jayashankar’s death. “Jayashankar death is huge loss to the Telangana agitation,” they stated.
Apart from Telangana leaders, Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy, Pradesh Congress Committee president Botsa Satyanarayana, Praja Rajyam president K Chiranjeevi, Telugu Desam party president N Chandrababu Naidu, former chief minister K Rosaiah, former PCC chief D Srinivas, Communist Party of India state secretary K Narayana, CPM secretary B V Raghavulu, Bharatiya Janata Party state unit president G Kishen Reddy and party leaders Ch Vidyasagar Rao and Bandaru Dattatreya, Lok Satta Party president Jayaprakash Narayan, MPs and MLAs condoled his sudden death.
In a media statement, LSP chief Jayaprakash Narayan pointed out that Prof Jayashankar was a fierce champion of federalism and a dedicated worker for people’s empowerment in Telangana. “He pursued with vigor and determination the causes he believed in,” Dr Narayan said.
Professor Jayashankar’s body has been placed in the Ekashila Park to enable people to pay their respects.(INN)
2012/1/24 8:43:30 The statues of eminent personalities of the state are now become soft targets for the miscreant-mobs to express their ire over their rivals. We have seen how the situation turns worse in a matter of 24hours in Amalapuram with the demolition of Dr.Ambedkar's statues. As an indication of the mania spreading to other places, some miscreants in Ramapuram in Nalgonda district have damaged the statue of late NTR on yesterday night. Police starts investigating the case. TDP president Chandrababu said it is shameful to vandalize the statue of late NTR who made all the Telugu people proud of him. He demands an immediate action on the culprits.
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)
The state cabinet sub-committee has met today to discuss the ongoing statues desecration cases and to draft the rules and regulations for installing the statues in the state.
Telagana Jagruthi president K Kavitha would sit on a 48-hour hunger strike demanding installation of Dr BR Ambedkar statue in the premises of State Legislative Assembly.
YS.Jagan Mohan Reddy has unveiled number of statues of his father and former Chief Minister of the state late YS.Rajashekar Reddy through out the districts where he has visited during his Odarpu Yatra. But, the rivalry between the local groups in those districts leads to vandalizing the statues of late YSR. 
Former Chief Minister late YS.Rajashekar Reddy fans in US are planning to conduct a memorial meeting on September 17th at Behrens Ranch, 2503 Arbor drive, Round Clock, TX 78681 US, on the eve of his 2nd death anniversary. Hence, they request all the people to join them in the memorial meeting. Those, need any further information about this program can contact the organizers at the above address.
The statues of eminent personalities of the state are now become soft targets for the miscreant-mobs to express their ire over their rivals. We have seen how the situation turns worse in a matter of 24hours in Amalapuram with the demolition of Dr.Ambedkar's statues. As an indication of the mania spreading to other places, some miscreants in Ramapuram in Nalgonda district have damaged the statue of late NTR on yesterday night. Police starts investigating the case. TDP president Chandrababu said it is shameful to vandalize the statue of late NTR who made all the Telugu people proud of him. He demands an immediate action on the culprits.
