Superstitious politicians refuse accommodation and offices previously occupied by leaders who suffered reversal of fortune recently

Newly-elected MLAs don't want to move into bungalows whose previous occupants either lost the latest Assembly polls or suffered a reversal of fortune recently.

Mantralaya officials, unwilling to come on record, said the superstitious politicians are fearful that some of the bad luck would rub off on them.

Cabin 465 at Mantralaya and Sarang bungalow both occupied earlier by former minister of minority affairs Anees Ahmed have not been taken by any minister reportedly because Ahmed lost the Assembly elections from Nagpur by a slim margin.

Room No 648, which was occupied by former minister of state for food and civil supplies Ramesh Bang, who lost the elections, has not been occupied by anybody despite it being strategically close to the chief minister and deputy chief minister's offices on the sixth floor of Mantralaya.

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