Magician OP Sharma dies at 49 in UP’s Kanpur
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Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh), October 16
Well-known magician O.P. Sharma passed away in Kanpur after a prolonged illness.
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He was 49 and breathed his last at a hospital on Saturday night.
Born in 1973 in the Ballia district, Om Prakash Sharma, lived in a house named ‘Bhoot Bungalow’ in Barra in Kanpur.
He began performing magic at age of seven. By 2018 he had performed at nearly 39,000 shows.
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Sharma had contested the Assembly elections from Govind Nagar on a Samajwadi Party ticket in 2002, but in 2019 he joined the BJP.
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