Chief Minister of Telangana K Chandrasekhar Rao will soon shift to new premises- a brand new villa being built adjacent to the present camp office in Begumpet. This will put an end to the camp office anxieties of Telangana CM, who is a great believer in Vaastu and celestial control of human destiny. Rao takes advice from many pundits and Chinna Jeeyar Swamy is the principal advisor. The new premises will be ready in three or four months, according to chief minister himself.

The camp office, though a temporary station for the chief minister and has to vacate the moment the lost the office in elections, is very important for the chief ministers of Telugu states. Every occupant of the camp office believes that he is going to be permanent resident. Every official and private programs of the chief minister revolve around the belief in the permanency of power. Interestingly, two Telugu states promote of Buddhism as the proud heritage of these parts of South India, forgetting the basic tenet of buddhism- impermanence is an undeniable and inescapable fact of human existence.

Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao revealed his plan of having a new and sprawling camp office to a group of journalists who called on him at his camp office on Monday to discuss the housing scheme for journalists. Rao said the new camp office would be coming up on an 8.5-acre site and have all the latest, state-of-the-art facilities. The CM did not reveal  the expenditure being incurred on the construction of the new camp office.

Now, Chief Minister Rao is residing in the camp office built by YS Rajasekhar Reddy when he was chief minister in 2004. Built on a 2 acre plot with a built up area of about 25,000 sqf, the camp office had been equipped with state-of-the-art facilities which includes a TV studio built at a cost of Rs 1.5 crore. After winning the election in 2014, as chief minister elect, Rao reportedly got it’s vaastu features studied and found it was imperfect. The terrible political travails the occupants passed through had been attributed to the vaastu imperfect features of the building. Chief minister YS Rajasekhar Reddy, the first occupant and the designer of the building died in helicopter crash in 2009. His successor K Rosaiah, did not move in because of the tragic death of his predecessor. But, he used to come to the camp office to spend some time. This also proved disastrous. Rosaiah did not last more than a year. The next chief minister Kirankumar Reddy, disrespecting the vaastu, used the premises and completed his term. But his tenure was turbulent. Telangan movement picked up. He had to support Samaikhyandhra movement clandestinely, suffered differences with party leadership. State was divided and he could not even contest the 2014 election.

So, KCR did not want to occupy this jinxed building. Immediately after his swearing-in search for new camp office began. The officials found two adjoining bungalows in Kundanbagh’s ministers’ quarters ideal for setting up of camp office for the chief minister. At that time these two were in occupation of one senior IAS officer and an IPS officer. They were asked to move out. Refurbishing of two decade old bungalows had begun. But suddenly, the proposal to shift the camp office had been put off. CM started operating from his Nandinagar residence.

But, later on June 23, following the advice from vaastu pundits, the CM decided to occupy original camp office, built by YS Rajasekhar Reddy. On that day, after performing Vaastu Puja and Sudarshana Yagam in the morning Rao became the fourth official occupant of CM’s Camp Office, Hyderabad. But anxieties continued. Chandiyagam had been performed to ward of fall ill-consequences in life. He doen’t want to take chances.

Now, he is planning to move a camp office, which is being built as per his tastes and vaastu principles and official requirements.