MLAs see ‘vaastu dosh’ in MP Assembly

Some of them, including ministers, have openly blamed the deaths on Vaastu Dosh in the building, designed by famous architect Charles Correa. A section of the media has played up the superstition. It went overboard after Gaud’s death on Monday. PWD minister Kailash Vijayvargiya has written a letter — a copy of which is available with The Indian Express — to Assembly speaker Ishwardas Rohani to rope in Vaastu experts from across the country to study the building and correct the ‘anomalies’.

“These deaths give rise to apprehensions in our minds. Also, people get worried about the fate of their representatives. There’s nothing wrong in addressing these fears”, Vijayvargiya told this paper on Friday. His letter says, “In this era of science most people would call it irrational, but Vaastu Shastra is our gift to the world. I don’t want to argue whether these fears have any rational basis, but such a study is needed to end them for once and all”.

Correa was not available for comment.

The Samajwadi Party has gone a step ahead. It will organise a Sarvadaliya Sarvadharma Vaastu Dosh Kashtanivaran Yagna (all-party, all-religion meet to correct Vaastu defects) on Saturday in front of the picturesque building. Party state president Narayan Tripathi said, “The BJP does not have courage to organise a yagna. The ritual is needed to remove the fear”.

Apart from all political parties, he has even invited the Governor to take part in the yagna.Tripathi is partly pained because he had to cancel a huge rally in the wake of Gaud’s death. The SP has not lost a single member to unnatural causes, but the BJP and Congress have many.