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| Ex-J-K CM's house may have led to his govt's fall | | | Early Times Reporter
Srinagar | July 14
The castle-like house where the former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister lived, may just be the reason for his government's downfall.
The palatial white house has become a talking point among the people in Srinagar. The house boasts 66 rooms and 12 presidential suits overlooking the famous Dal Lake.
It was the official residence of former chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad that is now being considered the reason that led to the fall of the Azad government.
Kashmir's leading historian Fida Hussain believes that the house is not fit for anyone’s residence. “I wrote a letter to CM Azad not to put up there. This place called Hari Niwas proved bad for Maharaja Hari Singh too. He had suffered a lot and this place is not worth living in. I did not mention that the place served as Interrogation centre. The Goddess of Doom ‘Shikasadevi’ resides there, so, naturally one can't reside there,” says Fida Hussain.
Once close to the Dogra dynasty, Fida recalls the Maharaja's wife Tara Devi warning the king against moving into that house. Even the old gardener, Abdul Khaliq Bhat, who served the Dogras, remembers mystery surrounding the place.
“I was a child. I too have heard of strange stories but could not figure that out,” says Khaliq Bhat.
In the heydays of militancy in the 1990s, the palace was used as an interrogation centre. And it caught the imagination of top state officials who decided to build the CM's official residence at a cost of Rs 11 crore. Azad could barely enjoy the house for a few months before his resignation from the CM's post.
Though there is no evidence, which shows the palace is in possession of occult forces, but some historians firmly believe that the vibrations in the palatial house open doors to negativity and doom. |
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