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Indian elections :
Coalition likely, say stargazers
INDIA: India’s general election will produce no clear-cut
winner, astrologers, tarot card readers and clairvoyants said,
predicting another coalition government and even new polls in two years’
time.
“There will be a coalition. Until June 23, the election picture will
not be clear and final, whatever happens,” astrologer and clairvoyant
Bejan Daruwalla told AFP.
Daruwalla’s prediction based, he said, on a vision is in line with
more earthly methods of forecasting the result of this month’s polls,
which sees the Congress-led government up against the main opposition
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and an array of smaller, regional parties.
Political pundits say BJP leader L.K. Advani could give Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh a run for his money, and possibly unseat him
after four years in power.
Stargazers Raj Kumar Sharma and Lalla Shah agreed with Daruwalla’s
assessment, viewing the current alignment of stars and planets as
unfavourable for a majority in the lower house of parliament.
Sharma attributed it to having fiery Saturn in the house of its arch
enemy Leo and positive Jupiter in negative Capricorn, creating “a very
confusing state of mind for the public and for the politicians.”
But the trio differed as to their predictions about which party would
win most seats in the lower house of parliament and who would partner
them to govern India’s 1.1 billion people.
Sharma suggested that Hindu nationalist Advani, with Saturn in his
horoscope until January 16, 2010, would become prime minister but his
BJP would be forced into an alliance with the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP,
or Dalit Society Party).
BSP leader Mayawati Kumari, the firebrand chief minister of northern
Uttar Pradesh state, has been touted as India’s first Dalit or
“Untouchable” prime minister but not this election, according to Sharma.
For Shah, who partly based her predictions on tarot card readings,
the celestial uncertainty is likely to make India’s 700-million-plus
electorate unwilling to alter the status quo.
“At the moment there is a need for change but there will be more
comfort for people in the way things are right now,” she told AFP.
“Things may stay the way they are with new alliances” between
Congress and other parties.” MUMBAI, Friday, AFP |
