Chandraswami

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Persondata
NAME	Jain, Nemi Chand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Chandraswami
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Indian tantrik
DATE OF BIRTH	1950
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Chandraswami (formerly Nemi Chand Jain) (born 1950), is a controversial Indian tantrik^[1] (who can allegedly perform miracles).

His father was from Bahrod in Rajasthan, a simple money lender, who later moved to Hyderabad when he was a child to get more work. Chandraswami left home to become a disciple of Upadhyay Amar Muni and tantra Pandit Gopinath Kaviraj. After that he lived in the jungles of Bihar, meditating. He claims to have obtained siddhi (miraculous powers) after four years. His loyalists include his secretary and confidant Vikram Singh and his aide Kailash Nath Aggarwal, better known as Mamaji.

He is a controversial Godman. He is said to have been a "spiritual adviser" of the Prime Minister of India, P V Narasimha Rao^[2]. In 1996, he was arrested on charges of swindling. He was accused of cheating and defrauding a London-based businessman Lakhubhai Pathak of $100,000.

Larry J. Kolb's book "Overworld" goes into some detail on Chandraswami and a meeting they both had with Daniel Ortega.

He was acquitted in the St Kitts forgery case^[3] in 2004. He is currently facing nine Foreign Exchange Regulation Act (FERA) violation cases in which he is facing trial^[4].

Chandraswami has claimed that he was framed by Arjun Singh, former Human Resource Development Minister and now a closeaide of Congress President Sonia Gandhi^[5] in the Rajiv Gandhi asssination case^[6].

His past followers are said to have included two former prime ministers, PV Narasimha Rao and Chandrashekhar, former bihar CM Laloo Prasad Yadav, ex-UP governor Romesh Bhandari, the Sultan of Brunei, Bahrain ruler Sheikh Isha Kaleefa, and Elizabeth Taylor.