BRS leaders Pagadala Nagaraju and Gundala Krishna questioned the purpose of installing the statue of a Congress party leader despite public opposition.
Prof. Jayashankar was a great Telangana ideologue who dreamed of Telangana for six decades and inspired three generations of activists till his last breath.
Pagadala Nagaraju and his wife Srividya were accused of illegally regularising government land under GO 59 by misleading the investigating officer with the documents of a different property.