Nirmal Baba: a cheat or a saint?

‘The Third Eye of Nirmal Baba’ is one of the most seen religious programmes on TV. The show is telecast on 44 channels including three in the USA. Nirmaljeet Singh Narula aka Baba spends over Rs 4 crore a month for telecasting.

According to reports, he earns around Rs 70 lakh a day in his religious samagams. He charges Rs 2000 for attending his samagam and even a child above the age of two has to register. He charges extra money for personal meetings. He takes money for doing pooja on the behalf of devotees. All this makes his annual income around Rs 250 crore.

He claims to remove all the worries of his devotees; provided they do what he suggests. Nirmal Baba ‘peeps’ into the past of his devotees with his ‘magical’, or say, ‘divine’ powers and solves their problems. Some get promotion in jobs, some accumulate wealth in a few months time and families of a few devotees recover from serious diseases. But many in the media and those have been associated with him alleged that he gives money to junior TV actors for asking questions in his shows. He impresses people by telling their past and makes people believe that he helps his devotees a lot.

If you want to benefit his ‘powers’, you just need to deposit a few thousand rupees or if go by his suggestions a 10 percent of your total income for a Dasvand Puja in the account of Nirmal Baba and in return, he will shower his blessings on you.

‘Baba’ tells his devotees to keep a black purse—it must be an expansive and branded one, a packet of 10-rupee notes in their purse to receive the blessings of divine powers. He tells them to eat Golgappe, dye their hair black, plant a money-plant in a glass vase and keep in the house and several other amusing ways to get rid of problems and sufferings.

According to a newspaper report, he had married a girl Sushma from Jharkhand in 1964 and also owned a brick kiln for some time. He has two children—one son and one daughter.  He has around Rs 110 crore in two bank accounts and also has a fixed deposit of Rs 25 crore.

There are many complaints for cheating pending against him; including one filed by two children from Lucknow at Gomti Nagar Police station.

The rise of Nirmaljeet Singh Narula aka Nirmal Baba has proved the statement of Barnum, the famous circus owner: “There is a sucker born every minute."

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