Vastu renovation of office brings luck to TD in Vizag !

By SNV Sudhir

Visakhapatnam, May 20, 2014:  No doubt it was TD chief N Chandrababu Naidu and PM designate, Narendra Modi’s development mantra that brought the combination into power in Seemandhra, but there seems to be another factor that had brought rich dividends to the party in the district- Vastu. 

Amid sagging fortunes of the party in the three districts of north Andhra, especially in Vizag, TD local leaders have taken up the task to make changes to the party office located on a rocky terrain in Ramnagar according to Vastu.

Vizag was once a strong bastion for TD, but since 2004 for almost a decade, party suffered major losses including desertion of important leaders like Ganta Srinivas Rao and party heavyweights like Ch Ayyana Patrudu and Bandaru Satyanarayan Murthy losing the polls. North Andhra region having 34 assembly and 5 parliament segments always helped TD to come into power.

It was Naidu’s close confidant and rajyasabha member, Sujana Chowdharuy during his visits to city as party in charge earlier, said to have proposed certain changes complying vastu rules. Vastu experts were specially flown into city to study the building.

Thereby, an informal committee with local leaders was also appointed to oversee the construction of certain changes as suggested by the vastu experts. While making changes according to vastu has begun last year, it took sometime to finish the works. 

In March this year, two months before the polls, works moved on a brisk pace and were completed on a war-footing before the polling day. A three-foot wall opposite the statue of NTR that ran up to the backside of the building was demolished.

The drive way was raised and the entrance was partially closed. The entrance was also shifted closer to the building. The NTR statue  on the northeast side has been shifted to the lawns and a wall was constructed on the side of the hillock blocking it.

Interestingly certain changes made earlier according to a vastu expert were undone on the advice of another expert as the party suffered further losses after doing so.  The four compound walls were raised to an equal level.

“Vastu is also a science and we wanted to make certain changes to  the office. And now see the sea change in the fortunes,” said a senior TD leader.

TD bagged 12 assembly segments and 2 parliament seats along with its ally BJP in the district leaving a meager, 3 assembly and 1 lok sabha seat to its rival party YSRC in the district.