Accessing Acutal Dropdown Object in Jquery

[saad]

Hello Kendo Team,
I am using putting a value in dropdownlist lang attribute I want to access it in Select Function but not getting anything which
can help me

please reply me asap
your help will be appreciated

Regards Saad

<script type="text/javascript">

  jQuery(function(){

             jQuery('.kendo-ddl-Task').kendoDropDownList({

                select: function (e) {

                    xTaskStatusDdl_change(e);

                }

             

            });

});

function xTaskStatusDdl_change(e) {           

            var selectedValue = e.item.index();

           //Trying to access parent but this is not working

           //alert(jQuery(this).parent().html());

 

        }

</script>

<asp:Repeater ID="rptPastDueTask" runat="server">

                                    <ItemTemplate>

                                                                                    

                                                    <asp:DropDownList ID="xTaskStatusDdl" runat="server" lang='<%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "XTaskID")%>'

                                                            CssClass="xTaskStatusDdl kendo-ddl-Task">

                                                    </asp:DropDownList>                                                   

                                                     

                                    </ItemTemplate>

                                </asp:Repeater>