telangana mahatma biography

                                                

                                

Kothapalli Jayashankar popularly known as Professor Jayashankar (Telugu: జయ శంకర్, (6 August 1934 – 21 June 2011) was an Indian academic and politician. He was the present ideologue of TRS party.^[1] He has been fighting for a separate state since 1952.^[2] He often stated that unequal distribution of river water was the root cause of separate Telangana movement.^[3] He was the former Vice Chancellor of Kakatiya University and an activist in the Separate Telangana Movement.^[4]

K. Jayashankar was born in Akkampet village, Atmakur mandal, Warangal district, Telangana. He belongs to dalit (Scheduled Castes) community. He did his schooling in Warangal and his M.A. in Economics at Banaras Hindu University, M.A. in Economics at Aligarh University and Ph.D. in Economics at Osmania University, and B.Ed. at Osmania University.

Career

K. Jayashankar as a young student of intermediate walked out of his class as a protest for state reorganization in 1952. Then, in 1962, he was part of a campaign which rocked the region. He joined the movement for a separate Telangana state in 1952, when he was a student leader. He had led several agitations since 1962, transforming it into a mass movement.

As a lecturer, in 1968, he participated in the revived the agitation. He carried out his struggle for Telangana through research and academic studies, and by educating people on the cause. He is known as the original Telangana ideologue

Telangana movement

He was associated with the Telangana movement efforts to obtain statehood for Telangana since 1952, stating with Non-Mulki go back andIdli Sambar go back movement. He opposed Vishalandhra in 1954. Professor Jayashankar started Naxals Karmagara Samithi. In 1969 Jayashankar formed a team with ten members to fight for Telangana from that team Jayashankar was only survivor others died in police firing he started Telangana Janasabha. It is banned by the Indian government. He authored a large number of articles and research papers, in English and Telugu, on various aspects of Telangana Problem.

He was instrumental in forming the Telangana Development Forum (TDF) in U.S.A. in the year 1999. He was invited by the American Telugu Association (ATA) U.S.A., to speak about the Problems of Regional Disparities in Andhra Pradesh during their biennial conferences held in July 2000 and July 2002. He was invited by the Telangana Development Forum (TDF) U.S.A. to give a series of lectures on various facets of the Telangana Movement in ten major cities of the United States during July/August 2000.

He is currently is the Chairman of Centre for Telangana Studies which is engaged in research and publication relating to problems of Telangana. He is the founder member of Telangana Aikya Vedika and, at present, is on its Executive Committee.

It was Jayashankar who offered lime juice to the TRS president when the latter broke his famous fast for Telangana in December, 2009.

During his student life, he defied his teachers order to sing the song praising nizam, instead he sang "vande mataram" song and he was suspended from the class.

Teaching career

Professor Jayashankar was Registrar of the then Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages (CIEFL) before being appointed Vice-chancellor of Kakatiya University in 1991.^[5][6]

(i) Taught Economics and supervised research at Doctoral Level.
(ii) Made in-depth studies on the problems emanating from regional disparities in the levels of development with special reference to A.P.
(iii)Has to his credit a large number of papers published in the areas of Economic Development and Educational Economics.
b) Administration:

Death

He died on 21 June 2011 11.15 AM after battling throat cancer. He did not marry and remained a bachelor all his life. He sacrificed his life in pursuit of a separate Telangana State. He did not marry for the cause of Telangana State. He adopted a boy from the forward community.