Overview

• On August 6, leaders from Congress, BRS, BJP and civil society paid homage to K. Jayashankar at events across Telangana to mark his birth anniversary.
• Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy lauded Jayashankar’s six-decade crusade as a Kakatiya University vice-chancellor and vowed that his government would carry forward the late ideologue’s aspirations.
• BRS working president K. T. Rama Rao celebrated him as the guiding star and charioteer of the movement’s second phase and urged activists to uphold his principles.
• Union Minister Bandi Sanjay Kumar hailed Jayashankar as a beacon of consciousness whose sacrifice and unyielding passion steered the struggle for separate statehood.
• Telangana Jagruthi president K. Kavitha highlighted his grassroots activism and extensive travels to expose regional injustices and kindle the flame of Telangana liberation.