New Delhi, July 27 :    New Delhi, July 27:  With the sudden death of Vice-President and Rajya Sabha Chairman Krishan Kant today and the death of Lok Sabha Speaker G.M.C. Balayogi in March, the number 13 is proving very inauspicious for Parliament. While the Rajya Sabha functions continuously, this is the 13th - numerologically an accursed date - Lok Sabha. Apart from the two sitting officers of the two Houses, many other members, including a record number of 14 sitting MPs of the 13th Lok Sabha, have also passed away recently. To cap it all, Parliament was attacked by terrorists on December 13, 2001. While Balayogi died in a helicopter crash in a village in his native Andhra Pradesh, Kant passed away less than a month before he was to demit office. Both died when Parliament was in session. The Lok Sabha lost stalwarts such as Madhavrao Scindia, who died in a plane crash in September 2001, after the demise of another promising leader Rajesh Pilot in a road accident in June the previous year. In January 2001, senior Congress member Jitendra Prasada had succumbed to a heart attack, while Samajwadi Party member Phoolan Devi was murdered on July 25 that year near her residence in the capital. Congress Lok Sabha MP from Karnataka Chandrashekhar Murthy died on November 21, 2001. This year, on July 23, another party MP, Atmaram Patel from Gujarat, passed away.