Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs T.B. Jayachandra has said that astrology is also a science and hence it cannot be included in the anti-superstition Bill.
Speaking to the reporters in Tumakuru on Monday, Mr. Jayachandra said that many people had been demanding that the government include astrology under superstitious beliefs, but as the universities are giving degrees in astrology, it cannot be considered as blind belief.
He said astrologers had told him that he would live for 105 years and hence he would contest in the next two Legislative Assembly elections. He said scientific inventions and discoveries made in the Indian history are being told in astrology.