Just 30 minutes after an anxious Congress leader S M Krishna had a door placed in the northeast, he got a call from Delhi offering him a minister's position
Just 30 minutes after an anxious Congress leader S M Krishna had a door placed in the northeast, he got a call from Delhi offering him a minister's positionVaastu helped S M Krishna get a cabinet berth, his close circle believes. He now holds the foreign affairs portfolio.
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Open sesame:u00a0 The new door (circled) is to the northeast of the house, and the main door under the patio will never be used hereafter pic/Satish Badiger |
The Congress leader got a call from Delhi on May 22, minutes after workers had placed a door in the northeast corner of his Bangalore home.
The former chief minister had been nursing hopes of becoming a central minister after he was elected to the Rajya Sabha last year, but nothing had moved in that direction.
A confidant of Krishna hinted that a vaastu correction at Krishna's Sadashivanagar house might help.
Vaastu consultant B Gangadhar reportedly identified some 'defects', and the "correction work" started on May 15, a day before results of the parliamentary polls were announced.
The all-important northeast door was completed on May 22, and the call came from Delhi the same day.
PM came knocking on the same day "It was dramatic," said a source in Krishna's house. "Everyone around him was anxious, and no one had imagined vaastu would show such quick results."
While family and friends sat around watching TV and biting their nails, construction workers came and opened the northeast corner and put in a door at 12 noon on Friday.
"And would you believe it, the Delhi call came at 12.30!" the source exulted.
Prime minister Manmohan Singh called, and Krishna's wife Prema picked up the phone.
Krishna left immediately for Delhi; he did not forget to leave through the new door.
"Am I using the right door?" Krishna reportedly joked just before he left with his son-in-law.
In the evening, after he had taken oath, he told reporters he had not expected the cabinet position.
Earlier, the house had a door facing east in the middle of the front wall.
"The northeast corner was closed because of which the energy flow was blocked," Gangadhar theorised.
Vaastu, according to Gangadhar, says the front door always be placed at the northeastern corner. "That brings prosperity," he told MiD DAY.
He has also suggested shifting of the back door to the northwestern corner. "Corrections will continue," he said.
Though projected as a suave and tech-savvy politician, Krishna is an ardent believer in vaastu.
He had altered his official house Anugraha after he took charge as chief minister in 1999.
When he was deputy chief minister in the Veerappa Moily cabinet, in 1993, he had changed the structure of his official residence on Cresent Road.u00a0
