New Delhi: What does Union Railway Minister Lalu Prasad do when he is not raising a ruckus in Parliament or issuing statements on the Nandigram issue? Apparently, he listens to poetry written specially for him and even goes a step ahead.
On Friday, he lived up to his image as 'messiah to the poor' when he offered a job to a man after hearing a couplet composed by the man.
The man, Feroz Alam, claims he is a budding poet and had composed a quartet in praise of the Railways Minister at a function organised at the Kolkata terminal.
Lalu was so impressed with the quartet — Apna Lalu-ji ko hum hargis bhula sakte nahin, yeh jo Railway hai, dusra koi chala sakta nahin (We cannot forget our Lalu ji and no one but him can run the Railways better) — that he offered the man a job then and there.
"I never thought my day would end like this," a visibly elated Alam later told a news agency, "this is the greatest day of my life."
Railway sources were quoted by agencies as saying that 27-year-old Alam would be offered a Group-D job under the cultural quota.
(With agency inputs)
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