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The chief minister of the south Indian state of Telangana has caused outrage after moving into a palatial new home that cost taxpayers $7.3m.
印度南部泰伦加纳邦的首席部长近来搬入了一所花费纳税人730万美金的豪宅官邸，这一事件引起了当地人的极度不满。
The building is spread over 9,000 square metres (100,000 sq ft) of prime real estate in Hyderabad city.
这所新官邸占地9000平米（折合10万平方英尺），位于海得拉巴市最好的地段。
It has bulletproof bathrooms, an auditorium which seats 250 people and a meeting hall that accommodates 500.
该豪宅内有一个防弹厕所，还有一个可容纳250人的礼堂和一个可容纳500人的会议厅。
The house was blessed by the minister's special guru while the bulletproof bathroom has been roundly mocked.
这位部长曾请来法师作法祈福，不过它的防弹厕所还是遭到了公众的奚落。
Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao moved into the house last Thursday after a series of religious rituals led by his spiritual guru, Chinna Jeeyar Swamy.
在法师Chinna Jeeyar Swamy进行了一系列仪式后，钱德拉塞卡·拉奥于上周四搬进了这个新住所。
The house, named Pragathi Bhavan, was built in close consultation with vaastu (similar to Feng shui) experts. Mr Rao is a great believer in vaastu, which is an ancient Hindu custom used in construction.
这所豪宅名叫Pragathi Bhavan，是经过vaastu（印度版风水）专家商讨之后兴建的。vaastu是古印度在建房子时的一种习俗，拉奥部长非常迷信它。
He has also been in the news for trying to demolish the state's secretariat complex because he believes its vaastu is bad for the state.
此前他也因想要拆除该州的秘书大楼而被媒体报道，原因是他认为大楼的vaastu对该州不利。
