What could be considered as the most imaginative or inventive reason for being absent from work, a Gujarat government official Rameshchandra Fefar claimed that he is Kalki, the 10th incarnation of Vishnu, and can’t come to office because he is conducting a “penance” to “change the global conscience”.

Rameshchandra Fefar, superintending engineer with the Sardar Sarovar Punarvasvat Agency (SSPA), in reply to a show-cause notice served on him by the department, went on to pat his own back saying that the country is receiving good rains due to his penance.

As per DNA news report, Fefar’s prolonged absenteeism earned him a show-cause notice from SSPA on 15 May. Fefar, who is in fifties, and originally from irrigation department, was deputed to the agency in September 2017, but attended office only for 16 days till April.

“Even if you don’t believe, I am indeed the tenth incarnation of Lord Vishnu and I will prove it in coming days. I realised that I am Kalki Avatar when I was in my office in March 2010. Since then, I am having divine powers,” Fefar on his absence from work , as per media report.

“I am doing penance at home by entering into fifth dimension to change the global conscience….I can’t do such penance sitting in office,” said Fefar.

“Because of my ongoing penance, India is getting good rainfall for the last 19 years,” he claimed.

The SSPA should decide “whether it’s more important for the agency to make me sit in the office and do time pass or do some concrete work to save the country from drought,” he said, adding “just because I am Kalki Avatar, India got good rains.”

However, the SSPA in their show-cause-notice have said that such unauthorised absence does not suit a gazetted officer. Work of the agency is getting hampered because of his absence.

Who is Kalki?

Kalki, destroyer of filth, is the nemesis of demon Kali (not be confused with Hindu godess Kaali) and the 10th avatar of Vishnu in Hinduism, foretold to appear at the end of Kali Yuga, the present epoch.

The Purana scriptures foretell that Kalki will be atop a white horse with a drawn blazing sword. He is the harbinger of the end time in Hindu eschatology, after which he will usher in Satya Yuga.