{ Note: This article of mine was appeared in the October 2016 issue of the Express Star Teller Magazine. The same has been reproduce here for the readers of my blog }
The firebrand orator and master political strategist Mamata Banerjee sworn-in as the chief minister of West Bengal for second consecutive term. By her resounding victory , in recently concluded assembly polls, she has proved her metal as a regional satrap. In these assembly elections Mamata Banerjee virtually single-handedly overcame the challenges posed by Left-Congress combine and the BJP despite a shrill political campaign running against her party since last couple of years. The Saradha Chit-fund scam seems to had no effect on the image of Mamata Banerjee, fondly called ‘Didi’ by her supporters, as her party Trinmoola Congress won a thumping majority by getting 211 seats out of 294 contested. Her party got 27 more seats this time than the previous assembly elections in 2011 when she had created a history by ending the 34-year old rule of Left Front government in West Bengal. In year 2011 Mamata Banerjee was fighting assembly polls with Congress party in alliance. This year the Congress went along with the Left, so this victory is even bigger and convincing than the previous one.
Now see the swearing-in chart of Mamata Banerjee given here for prospects of her new government in West Bengal.
Oath Taking Mamata Banerjee
27 May 2016 at 12:45 hours at Kolkatta
Tithi: Krishna Panchami , Vaar: Friday , Nakshatra: Sharavana
Yoga: Brahma , Karana: Gara
The rising sign Simha (Leo) is a Sirsodia rashi which is consider very auspicious for an oath taking chart. The lord of lagna is Sun strongly place in the 10th house getting Digbala (directional strength) . The Sun is exalted in the Navamsha chart and so is the Moon which is excellent. The Panchanga parameters of the day are good. The Nakshatra is Shravana which is a movable (Chara) Nakshatra showing some important policy changes. The Moon is somewhat weak in Kemadruma Yoga as there is no planet in either side of it. Moon is also in Shakata Yoga as the Jupiter is falling in 8th from it. But the two benefic planets Jupiter and Venus are in Kendra in the Rashi as well as Navamsha chart which ward-off most of the ill-effect of these bad yogas from Chandra Kundali.
As per the senior astrologers like Shri K.N.Rao the oath taking chart mostly tell about the policy directions and working style of the leader. The personal horoscope of the leader concern should also be analysis for his long term political prospects. But here there is a handicap as we don’t have the correct birth details of Mamata Banerjee. In March 2012 Mamata Banerjee’s auto-biography ‘My Unforgettable Memories’ was published by Roli Books. This book is an English translation of Mamata Banerjee’s memoirs and is easily available online. In this book Mamata Banerjee disclosed that she is five year younger than her office age. { Reference link http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Mamata-Banerjee-five-years-younger-than-official-records/articleshow/11641228.cms
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Mamata-Banerjee-five-years-younger-than-official-records/articleshow/11641228.cms } This disclosure was widely covered by media at that time.
Mamata Banerjee writes in this book “I was not even 15 when I wrote my school final examination and would have been disqualified for being underage. So, my father gave a fictitious age and birthday to get around the problem. The result: a new birthday and five years added to my real age….”
Apparently ‘Didi’ was born on October 5, instead of January five, as the book says that her mother had once given her a horoscope with that date mentioned in it.
Her mother used to celebrate her birthday every Ashtami (the eighth day of Durga Puja which falls in October) with a special preparation of rice pudding, she says while explaining how she has had two birthdays so far. “To the world at large, my school certificate with its erroneous date of birth is the legally valid document,” Mamata Banerjee writes in this book. {Reference link http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/mamata-five-years-younger-than-official-records-571219
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So in the absence of correct birth details of Mamata Banerjee we can combine her oath taking chart along with the horoscope of her party to access her political prospects for next 5 years in office.
Trinmoola Congress Party (TMC)
1 January 1998 at 11:00 hours at Calcutta
Balance of Dasha in Vimshottari: Moon 2 Years 11 Months 15 Days
The Trinmoola Congress party was founded on 1st of January 1998 after Mamata Banerjee separated from Congress (I) with her supporters. In early years the Trinmoola Congress had to struggle very hard against the monumental political structure of Left parties ruling that state since 3 decades then. Saturn in the lagna of this party and 6th lord Sun in the 10th house shows early years of struggle and strife. The ‘Nandigram Movement’ in 2007 and later the ‘Ma Mati Manush’ ( Mother, Motherland and People) slogan gave immense popularity to Trinmoola Congress which had now become a household name in the West Bengal. In Rahu-Jupiter dasha in Vimshottari this party won assembly poll in 2011 and came into the helm of affairs in the state. Jupiter is in great Raj Yoga’s and Dhan Yoga’s in the 11th house of gains.
Now the TMC is running with the Vimshottari dasha of Rahu-Mercury from 26 November 2015 to 15 June 2018. The anter dasha lord Mercury is strongly place in the 9th house of luck. But since Mercury is in is inimical sign in Rashi chart and is in debilitation in the Dashamsha so it is bound to give some troubles.
The transiting Saturn will reach into Sagittarius on the 15th of February next year which will initiate a period of ‘Sadhe-Sati’ for Trinmoola Congress party. Now notice an interesting point here, in the oath taking chart of Mamata Banerjee the Moon is in Makar (Capricorn) rashi and it is in the same sign in the chart of her party TMC. So the ‘Sadhe-Sati’ period in the chart of Trinmoola Congress Party is going to give lots of troubles to its chief Mamata Banerjee during next few years.
In Chara dasha the period of Gemini will start from 01 January 2017 and run till 01 January 2022 in the horoscope of TMC. The Gemini is the 6th house from Atamakaraka Jupiter and 8th house from Amatayakaraka Mercury. During this adverse dasha of Gemini lots of TMC leaders will get trap into serious scandals and controversies.
On the basis of a combine analysis of the chart of TMC and Mamata Banerjee we can make following astrological conclusions about her second term as chief minister.
- The Jupiter in the ascendant of oath taking chart of Mamata Banerjee shows that she will work for the betterment of poor and marginalized section of society with good intentions.
- In the oath taking chart the sixth (disputes) and seventh (opposition parties) lord Saturn giving aspect to lagna, lagna lord and 10th house shows that there will be serious disputes during the tenure of Mamata Banerjee this time. The opposition parties will attack her working style and put pressure on the government to act against corruption charges.
- The seventh house of oath taking chart has Ketu which is in the Mrityug Bhagh degrees. This Ketu will is under the joint aspect of Jupiter and Mars which are Karaka’s for this Leo lagna oath taking chart. Mamata Banerjee will work hard to improve her public image and may even try to project herself as the contender of prime minister’s post in coming years. But Ketu in the 7th house in its Mrityu Bhagh degrees will give her a setback in her public image.
- As per the horoscope of TMC the year 2017 and 2018 will be difficult time for the leaders of this party. During the ‘Sadhe-Sati’ period the ghost of Saradha Chit-Fund scam will arise again and it will keep them haunting for next few years.
