HYDERABAD: Senior politician and former MP, MV Mysura Reddy, said on Tuesday that the people of Rayalaseema were suffering a lot under the present Andhra Pradesh and asked for a separate Rayalaseema state. “Rayalaseema cannot survive along as with the coastal districts of Andhra Pradesh,” he said at the book release function of two of his own books, ‘Asthitvam’ and ‘Idee Sangati’, in Press Club on Tuesday.
Speaking after the release of his books, Reddy said that despite being inactive in politics for the last four years he has been penning political articles to various newspapers. Highlighting the plight of Rayalaseema, Reddy mooted a separate Rayalaseema state.
“Rayalaseema will only get sufficient irrigation water once it is separated. There are doubts in the minds of people a small state like Rayalaseema, if carved out, would survive or not. There will be no problems in the survival of a separate Rayalaseema, as the central waxes will be disbursed on the basis of population,” he explained.
Alleging under the rule of Andhra government at present, everything including secretariat, industries, capital and courts are centralised in one place. Even the administration is centralised in AP, he said. Venkateswara Rao, who launched the books, said that Reddy’s books were like reference books.