UP: In the middle of road, ex-MLA cuts cake with axe, video goes viral

MEERUT: A video has gone viral on social media in which former Bulandshahr MLA Shri Bhagwan Sharma aka Guddu Pandit can purportedly be seen cutting a cake placed on a car’s bonnet with a giant battle axe in the presence of scores of supporters.
In the video – which was streamed live from his Facebook account – Sharma can be seen cutting a cake placed on the bonnet of a red SUV on the highway. He later puts tilak on a youth’s forehead and the cake was distributed among his supporters who kept raising slogans.

Bulandshahr senior superintendent of police (SSP) Santosh Kumar confirmed that the video was shot in Noida on the Eastern Peripheral Expressway. Later, an FIR under relevant sections of the IPC for violation of lockdown orders was registered at Dadri police station in Noida.

“My birthday is on July 10. I was returning to Bulandshahr from Noida as my mother-in-law had passed away. A group of youth were celebrating someone’s birthday. When they spotted me, they came in front of my car. I couldn’t have run them over. They put the cake on the bonnet of my car and requested me to cut it,” Sharma clarified, claiming that he also advised them not to celebrate on the highway and to adhere to the social distancing norms.
Known for such antics, the former lawmaker has been booked at least five times in the last two months for flouting lockdown norms. In an earlier case registered against him on May 12, Sharma was booked for violating lockdown norms after he was found “luring exhausted migrant labourers by offering them food and beverages” outside his home.
In Video:Shocking! Former MLA axes cake, mocks social distancing norms