Living up to his reputation as a Messaiah of the poor, Railway Minister Lalu Prasad on Saturday offered a youth a job with the railways after hearing a shayari composed by him.

Budding poet Feroz Alam had composed the shayari in praise of the Railway minister which he got an opportunity to present before Lalu at a function organised at the Kolkata Terminal.

Alam had just began singing “Apna Lalu-ji ko hum hargis bhula sakte nahin/ yeh jo railway hai, dusra koi chala sakta nahin,” when the Railway minister stopped him and told one of the officers, “usko bahal kar lo.’

Railway sources said that 27-year-old Alam would be offered a Group-D job under the cultural quota.