CHANDRASEKHAR, FORMER INDIAN PRIME MINISTER, A MEMOIR..

MY RISKIEST
PREDICTION-1..
KN RAO
29 July 2007, 3:45 AM

The late Hiralal Chaubey, a noted Hindi journalist, had revised his biography of
Chandrasekhar, the former prime minister of India, before his own death.

Today, 8 July 2007, Chandrasekhar died in Apollo hospital in the dasha of Venus, a maraka
for Mesha lagna.

Hiralal had promised to present me a copy of the revised biography because he had
mentioned the prediction I had given to Chandrasekhar of his becoming the prime minister
at a very crucial time in his career when Chaubey had taken me to him in August 1990. But
he died and I could not get the copy of the revised biography of Chandrasekhar.

A friend presented a copy of it in 2006 and there is mentioned clearly with my name, the
prediction I had given to him in the presence of many people in August 1990 that he would
become the prime minister of India for a brief spell that year itself replacing V.P.Singh who
was looked upon as a menace because of his notorious Mandal politics. It was the policy of
implementation of a poorly investigated, fudged and manipulated report on reservations for
the other backward classes of India, the notorious report of B.P. Mandal.

How can this happen in the mahadasha of debilitated Mercury was the question of some
astrologers sitting in the large gathering at the place of Chandrasekhar who loved to have a
gathering of people around him always. I had insisted that it would happen in the
mahadasha of Mercury and the antardasha of Moon very suddenly. In Jaimini it
would the mahadasha of Kumbha and the antardashas of Simha. In transit, Jupiter
would be in Karka then and Saturn in Dhanu.

On the insistence of Hiralal

Chaubey I had written a very long
article,  almost six columns
explaining the prediction in Hindi in
the Hindi newspaper of Calcutta,
Sanmarg, for which he worked as
Delhi’s special correspondent.

Later, after I had retired, I had

written in the Vishwa Vijay
Panchanga (Hindi) that Saturn in
Makara will lead to his fall. In the
Times of India, in an interview
done by Miss Mandalekar, I had
said that the Congress would come
back to power.

In an interview to Calcutta’s
Sunday, a weekly, I had said that
during the election of 1991, a
prominent leader would be killed.
That was Rajiv Gandhi who was
killed on 21 May 1991.

Those days, unlike now, I used to

do lot of mundane astrology and
fortunately got so many authentic
horoscopes, unlike now. I had a string of brilliant predictions to show then. Then I lost
interest in political predictions. It was easy to double check the prediction I had given to
Chandrasekhar with Chara dasha where from Kumbha, his Amatyakaraka, Jupiter would be
in the tenth house.
I should not have taken that risk as I had still three more months to retire from my service.
Yet, I did it because of my respect for both Hiralal Chaubey and Chandrasekhar. It remained
unnoticed, unknown and I retired peacefully. Earlier, in 1988, in an interview to the
Onlooker (Bombay) now defunct, I had said that in 1989, there would be a change in the
central government on the basis of an original research of mine in mundane astrology. My
explanation was called for. I escaped by saying that it was an academic research which I
was testing. As government servants we are punishable under the conduct rules if we
participate in politics and a political prediction could be construed as participation in politics.

Chandrasekhar became the prime minister in November of that year (1990) and fell after
seven months.

During a visit to the Mussorie or Simla Academy, as the prime minister of India, he had
defended astrology strongly saying that he had evidence of the correctness of astrological
prediction and of astrology being a science.

I have to explain why I took the risk of giving the prediction so openly, the first and the last
time ever, in an open durbar of Chandrasekhar.

In the briefest membership of the Socialist Party of India I had for two years because of the
inspiration provided by Acharya Narendra Dev to our generation of students, I had met
Chandrasekhar once in Aminabad office of the Socialist Party, Lucknow where he had come
to stay from Allahabad or Varanasi. He continued in politics and mine was over after
Acharya Narendra Dev left Lucknow University to join Varanasi University as vice chancellor.

But from what I saw then of Chandrasekhar, doing his PhD from Varanasi those days, he
appeared to have the scintillating intelligence with sharp analytical powers of late Achyut
Patwardhan, Purushottam Tricumdas but he could never reach the great eloquence in Hindi
of Acharya Narendra Dev which was equaled  or even surpassed by Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
of the Jan Sangh.

You cannot be in politics without being unscrupulous and cannot succeed without becoming
totally unscrupulous. Yet, for Chandrasekhar I had some sneaking admiration because he
had stood up to Indira Gandhi, challenged her almost, and got elected to the Congress
Working Committee inspite of her opposition. Indira Gandhi, the vindictive woman, had her
revenge when she got him expelled from the party and got him arrested during the National
Emergency of 1975.

During his imprisonment, he wrote his jail diary in Hindi which is a great piece of literature
besides giving some insights into lesser known aspects of Indian politics.

For instance, Indira Gandhi had  told Biju Patnaik that elections should be made so
expensive that opposition parties should find it difficult to fight it ! That was the story
behind the enormous corruption of her era, which has now become our national legacy.

I will narrate in the second part how I had fixed his lagna as Mesha on the basis of which I
had given him the riskiest prediction of my life so openly and which was so well known to so
many.

Professor L.P.Singh, his life long friend, former head of the department of philosophy of
Gaya University who now goes to foreign universities to lecture on Indian philosophy, on
Tantra, Buddhism refers to this prediction of mine often, even now.

Hiralal Chaubey, himself an astrologer, had given to him Mithuna lagna with which I had not
agreed. After verifying the life events of Chandrasekhar, I had given him Mesha lagna, last
navamsha and given to him what to date is my riskiest prediction. Not arguing with me,
Hiralal took me to Chandrasekhar and asked me to tell about my prediction.

I will explain it in the second part as I have to go out of Delhi and am in a hurry. ( 8 July
2007)
CHANDRASEKHAR, FORMER INDIAN PRIME MINISTER, A MEMOIR..MY RISKIEST
PREDICTION-2
KN RAO
29 July 2007, 3:22 AM

Why had I changed the lagna of Chandrasekhar from Mithuna given by Hiralal Chaubey (see
page 269 CHANDRASEKHAR ek lambe safar ki kahani VINDHYACHAL PRAKASHAN B
19- Gulmohar Park, Delhi 110049) to Mesha was the question I had to answers later
and some of them in the presence of Chandrasekhar.

Let me deal with it partly in a question-answer method.

 You are the eldest child of your parents or the first child of your mother.
 Chandrasekhar I am not the first child of my father but am the first of my mother.
My father married twice.
  You have studied political science, sociology but part of your education got
interrupted.
 Chandrasekhar I studied both and later I could not complete my PhD because I got
involved in politics.
 Between 1975 and 1977 did you yourself take a decision to leave the Congress party
or were expelled ?
 Chandrasekhar Expelled.

I gave my prediction to him thus: Astrologically you could not have risen to the high
post of the prime minister in 1989 though, it was said that Biju Patnaik had hatched a
conspiracy to propose the name of Devi Lal, the senior most among you all.

In turn, as pre-planned, Devi Lal stood down and proposed the name of V.P.Singh. But now
with planetary position having changed, V.P.Singh cannot stay in power inspite of the mass
hysteria he has created for himself through the Mandal report.

Chandrasekhar had looked at me with poker face without showing whether he believed me
or not. There ended the meeting. 

Discussion with others was on the following lines.

A person who started his career like an intrepid socialist failed to rise higher because Indira
Gandhi did everything to ruin his career. This is well explained by the presence of the tenth
lord in the eighth house and the eighth lord aspecting the tenth house.

It was the period of Saturn Mars that he suffered the worst disaster of his political career.
Here Mars in the eighth house of dashamansha confirms the reading available from the birth
horoscope.

It started in the period of Tula-Kanya in Chara dasha with Amk in the third house and AK in
the sixth and two malefics in the tenth house.

Whole of his Jupiter period he was the rising star which is clear from Jupiter in the eleventh
house also in the dashamansha.

In the Saturn period, he felt let down, first by Jaya Prakash Narayan which grudge he did
express many years after the death of that great leader.

Then came the Indira Gandhi’s blow to him and his career.

Now, it was the period of Mercury, debilitated but the third and sixth lord. It falls under the
exception of Parashara.
The antardasha of Moon, the fourth lord of the lagna, vargottama and in the tenth house of
the dashamansha was the right period for him to become the prime minister. It was now or
never for him.

Being in the eighth house from Mercury, Moon made him the “accidental” prime minister of
India when the government of V.P. Singh was brought down by BJP and the famous ratha
yatra of Lal Krishna Advani.

Both Jupiter and Saturn were in strong houses in the sarvastaka houses.

I had series of arguments like this including the verification of his personal and family life
which I will not disclose here.

He did become the prime minister in November 1990 and it was a rather ludicrous situation,
depending on the mercy of Rajiv Gandhi to whose disgrace it will be always said that on
flimsiest ground he withdrew the support of his party to the government of Chandrasekhar
in which he had less than sixty men of his own !

But in that small period, he did nothing that could be called creditable. The nation was
financially bankrupt and he was a prime minister whose crutch on which his government
depended was monstrously too huge.

Was India a democracy or a joke so many of us wondered.

But vargottama Sun and Moon the fourth and fifth lords of his horoscope had to
give him at least once what he deserved very richly during the Indira era as a
Congress man and as a possible successor of Indira Gandhi.

History is a cruel judge. A man who might have been a great prime minister of India, had to
struggle all his life to find his place in Indian politics in the Indira era. He will unfortunately
get bracketed with V.P. Singh, an ugly aberration in Indian politics, Deve Gowda who as
though had won a lottery ticket to become the prime minister or later, I.K. Gujaral who
thought that a prime minister should always be touring foreign countries and never stay in
India.

And now in the dasha of Venus, the maraka for Mesha, Chandrasekhar breathed
his last. His death removes the last of a giant socialist who lived to see his political wings
flutter in the void of Indira Gandhi’s opportunistic politics.

But I remember him as a dignified, mature and intelligent politician who was the leader of
leaders.

( 9 June 2007)