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Want to know the reason behind the economic slowdown?

Not demonetisation or GST, but the ‘severe vastu defect’ in the symbol of the rupee is the reason behind India’s economic depression.

Believe it or not, Guwahati based Vastu adviser Rajkumar Jhanjhari on Tuesday claimed this.

Jhanjhari claimed his prediction made seven years ago has been completely turned correct.

“The rupee is constantly weakening against the USD. GDP is continuously falling. In 2010, when the new symbol of the rupee came into circulation, the rupee was going through a golden phase of 44 against the dollar and 9 percent of the country’s GDP,” Jhanjhari said.

“The situation today is that there has been a hue and cry in the country with a record fall of 74 rupees against the dollar and a worrying growth rate of down 5 percent,” he said.

“In 2011, I wrote a letter to the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, requesting correction in the larger interest of the country, predicting a defect in the rupee symbol and the fall in the rupee and the growth rate,” he said.

Jhanjhari  also went on a hunger strike at Mahavir Udyan at Fancybazar in Guwahati in 2011 over this.

“But today the country is suffering from a terrible economic crisis due to the vastu defect of the rupee symbol.

“The central government is not taking any initiative to correct the vastu fault. The BJP must take immediate action in making its office vastu compliant,” he said.

Jhanjhari, who have claimed to have given free vastu advice to 15,000 families, also rued the fact that the BJP had not taken steps to make the rupee symbol vastu defect free.