By now, we have read people calling themselves God’s incarnation, a witch and if that wasn’t enough, one woman once said that a bat was stuck in her hair to miss work. However, none of them ever tried to make their bizarre excuses political but this engineer from Madhya Pradesh is just a whole another level.

Rajkumar Yadav, a deputy engineer posted in Malwa district, recently wrote an amazingly crazy leave application to his boss. In the application, the engineer explains that he needs the holiday to go beg on the streets. That’s not all, the man went on to narrate a story, which includes some well known political figures to back his story up.

According to the copy of the application, which has now gone viral on social media, Yadav asked for a day off on Sunday to go beg for food on the streets in order to erase his ego.

The engineer further explains that this decision comes after an epiphany he had about his past life where he was friends with RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and Hyderabad CM Asaduddin Owaisi.

Not just that, he even claimed that all three of them were Mahabharata characters in the past life wherein Owaisi was Nakul, Arjuna’s younger brother and Bhagwat was ‘Shakuni Maama’. 

Well, we probably would have laughed and cried at the same time if we were his supervisor, but fortunately, the man’s superintendent had a befitting reply to this bizarre request.

As per a Hindustan Times report, Janpad Panchayat CEO Parag Panthi, the engineer’s superior, advised the ‘Mahabharata Man’ to work on Sunday to ‘erase his ego, instead of begging.’

“Dear deputy engineer, you want to erase your ego, it is a matter of great happiness. To this end, our cooperation can help you achieve your goal. A person is often egotistical and thinks that he can spend his Sundays at will. Destroying this ego from its roots is indispensable for your progress. Therefore, keeping in view your desire for spiritual progress, you are ordered to work every Sunday by being present in the office, so that your ego of celebrating Sunday as a holiday can be destroyed,” HT quoted Parag Panthi.