Summary:
The present Mahant of Deoraha Baba Ashram, Shyam Sundar Das , recalls, “In 1978, Indira Gandhi came here and took blessings of Baba. Later, Rajiv Gandhi and his wife Sonia also visited Deoraha Baba on the eve of 1989 elections. He came to Deoria from Vrindavan and used to live on a 12-foot high wooden platform on the bank of river. People across castes and religion came to him from far and wide and considered him as their spiritual guru. Baba left the world on May 19, 1990..