Astrological predictions by a famous astrologer, Pandit Sanjay Chaudhry, have put the Bharatiya Janata Party in Uttar Pradesh in a quandary. Chaudhry had earlier, much earlier, predicted the certain win of Donald Trump in the US presidential polls last year. That prediction, which went against the liberal media wisdom and predictions of a Hillary Clinton landslide, has come true. Chaudhry had also predicted a bright future for the Akhilesh-Rahul combine in the annual predictions issue of the Parliamentarian magazine. Now he says that the Samajwadi Party-Congress coalition will come to power in UP. He says also that two women will play a critical role in this. Given that Sonia Gandhi is one of the two, is he suggesting that the other woman could be Mayawati?
Pandit Chaudhry has also suggested that while polling in the first three phases of the state elections will not warm the hearts of the SP-Cong combine, but polling in the fourth phase will give them a bumper crop of votes. Chaudhry predicts that after the UP polls, the cadres of both Mayawati’s BSP and BJP would go helter-skelter and both parties would be in disarray.
So far as the already concluded Punjab polls go, he says that while the BJP-Akali alliance will bite the dust, and Aam Aadmi Party would surge in terms of vote share, and yet, the Congress would form the government.
About the Goa assembly polls, which concluded on Feb 4, Panditji says that it will be impossible for either the BJP or the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party to form the government in the 40-seat assembly. Rather, he says either AAP or Congress will rise to power.
In the 70-seat Uttarakhand assembly, where polling concluded on Feb 15, rebels from within all the parties have played a crucial role, Panditji says, predicting a hung assembly in which the Congress will have a shade more say in forming (or not forming) the government.
And finally in for flung Manipur, Pandit Chaudhry says that in the 60-seat trial at the hustings, BJP’s vote share will see a hike, but still Congress will come to power. It will be interesting to watch out for how these predictions play out on March 11.