It has been a long time since one has heard about doctor-turned politician from Rayalaseema and former MP Dr M V Mysoora Reddy.
He has virtually faded out of politics after YSR Congress party came to power in Andhra Pradesh in 2019 and nobody remembers him at present.
But now and then, he surfaces in the media with strange statements which have no takers.
On Friday, Mysoora came out his political oblivion by reviving the demand for separate statehood for Greater Rayalaseema.
Releasing a book on Greater Rayalaseema written by another former MP Gangula Pratap Reddy in Hyderabad, Mysoora said the demand for Greater Rayalaseema had not faded out but is still alive.
“The people of Rayalaseema should take inspiration from their Telangana counterparts and put up a spirited fight to achieve Greater Rayalaseema. We are all there to take the movement for Rayalaseema forward,” he said.
He called upon the youth to take the lead in the fight for the formation of separate Greater Rayalaseema state.
“When Telangana can be formed, why not Rayalaseema?” he asked.
Mysoora had kicked up the demand for Greater Rayalaseema last year itself, when YSRC president and chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy came up with the three capitals plan.
He had taken initiative then to mobilise the support of some leaders, but nothing moved forward later.
He said the people of Rayalaseema had already sacrificed their capital once in 1952 when Andhra Pradesh was formed by shifting it from Kurnool to Hyderabad.
“Justice will only be done to Rayalaseema when the capital is set up here,” he said.
Mysoora is pitching for Greater Rayalaseema with four Rayalaseema districts and Nellore, besides parts of Prakasam and Guntur.
