New state Telangana CM KCR’s verdict to change the location of Secretariat, from the banks of picturesque Hussainsagar Lake to the TB and Chest Diseases Hospital land at Erragadda in the name of ‘vaasthu’.
In the earlier reports, they said that the thing happening is only shifting the Secretariat but not changing the Government. They said that it has wider space with number of offices that contain Heads of Departments, spread across the city that can arrange the part of plans theme. The government need an integrated and an elegant Secretariat under one roof.
Obviously, the other parties like the Congress, the TDP and the BJP made an issue about this as to how could KCR mistake the grounds when the earlier 16 Chief Ministers, who feint joint Andhra Pradesh from the location, had no issues. They see more to it than what meets the eye in the matter giving a hint that the government could be aiming to do real estate business with the prime properties by disposing them off. KCR vindicated his judgment viewing the serious ‘vaasthu’ defects. He proclaimed that no Chief Minister in the earlier was able to give rule without troubling from the place.
May be, the plaid history of some Chief Ministers mainly late N.T. Rama Rao who was overwhelmed by his confidantes twice could be the cause following stemming of ‘vaasthu’ beliefs at present. But, the earlier Chief Ministers like N. Chandrababu Naidu, Kasu Brahmananda Reddy and Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy endeared themselves to the public from the current Secretariat.
A member of rationalist organisation, K.L. Kantha Rao of Jana Vignana Vedika questioned, “Any Chief Minister will have to go back to people and seek votes after the scheduled term. Does Mr. Chandrasekhar Rao believe that he will rule for 40 years if vaasthu is good?” Verifying the choice as superstitious, president of Jana Chaitanya Vedika V. Lakshmana Reddy said, “The decision is against the constitutional spirit and amounts to wasting public money.”
Throwing apart alike disputations, TRS leader MP B. Narsaiah Goud made an idea that was able to give a good rule and low the rate of corruption. He mentioned the other parties not to resist the verdict without any vision and as an alternative come up with scientific reasoning. Not related to such debates, old timers say that trials were made in the earlier times during the regimes of N. Sanjeeva Reddy, T. Anjaiah and K. Vijayabhaskara Reddy to change the Secretariat but the plans were disappeared.