PM during the discussion on the President’s Address in the Budget Session of Parliament Narendra Modi He also made full use of couplets, poetry and poetry in his speech, which is now making headlines. It is also being shared on social media.
In the Lok Sabha, PM Modi quoted famous poet Jigar Moradabadi’s Sher ‘Ye kah keh ke hum dil ko behla rahe rahe hai’. He is now gone, he is coming now’, targeted Congress leader Rahul Gandhi.
In a scathing attack on the Congress in the Rajya Sabha, the PM read Dushyant Kumar’s poem ‘There is no land under your feet’. Opposition leaders Mallikarjun Kharge and Mahua Moitra did not miss to target the government through poetry.
The tradition of attacking and retaliating through sher-o-shayari and poetry in Parliament is old. After India’s defeat in the China war, national poet Ramdhari Singh Dinkar also targeted the then Prime Minister Nehru through poetry.
Dinkar’s poem ‘looks like a deity and writes wrong orders sitting in a closed room’ later became very famous. Dinkar was a member of the Rajya Sabha at that time.
Why do MPs use poetry?
You must have often heard the recitation of Sher-o-Shayari and poetry on the stage. In such a situation, the question arises that why MPs use it inside the Parliament, let us know the reason…
1. Punctuality- Time is fixed for all the MPs to give speech in the Parliament. Many MPs get only 1-2 minutes to speak. In such a situation it becomes difficult to say the whole thing.
Former MP and currently Chief Minister of Punjab Bhagwant Mann Had told in an interview that those things can go somewhere in poetry which is not possible in the speech of hours. That’s why most MPs use poetry and poetry to express their views.
2. Background of MPs- Another reason is the background of the MP. From the initial days till now poets and poets have become MPs in the House. In such a situation, they use poetry and poetry very well to attack the government.
At present, many parties including Congress and BJP have MPs who have been poets and poets. Among them the names of Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, Imran Pratapgarhi are prominent. Atal Bihari Vajpayee and child poet Bairagi used to be in the house during Indira’s time.
The poetic journey of Parliament, 4 stories
1. When the Union Minister resigned after reading Sher- The year was 1986. In the Parliament session, the Rajiv government introduced the Muslim Personal Law Bill after the Shah Bano case under the pressure of Muslim religious leaders. The opposition was against the government, but suddenly the strong minister Arif Mohammad Khan also stood up against the bill.
Khan announced his resignation from the cabinet after reciting the famous poet Shahab Jafri’s Sher ‘Mujhe Rahjanon se gila nahi tiri rahbari ka sawal hai’. The government was stunned by Khan’s resignation and Rajiv Gandhi himself started trying to persuade him.
Arif Khan also left the Congress in protest against the bill and later joined VP Singh. Arif Khan was made the aviation minister in VP Singh’s government.
2. The Home Minister read poetry in front of Indira- In 1982, Giani Zail Singh was the Home Minister, during that time a motion of no confidence came in the Parliament. Opposition leaders fiercely shot arrows of statements against the government.
Indira Gandhi was troubled by the attack of the opposition. Meanwhile, Home Minister Giani Zail Singh got up to speak. He shot a lion on the chest, of course, but take care that there is heart in the chest and your place in the heart.
The atmosphere of the house lightened slightly with this share of gels. Meanwhile, seeing Indira’s attitude, opposition leader Madhu Dandavate also asked her a question about her bitterness, which made the whole house resound with laughter.
3. Lalu Yadav’s lion went viral- In 2008, after the nuclear deal with the US, the Left parties announced the withdrawal of support from the Manmohan Singh government. After this, a motion of confidence was presented.
RJD supremo Lalu Yadav gave a lot of arguments in favor of the government. During this, Lalu Yadav read Sahir Ludhianvi’s lion ‘If you don’t want me, it doesn’t matter / If you want someone else, it will be difficult’.
During this, Lalu fiercely attacked Lal Krishna Advani and George Fernandez.
4. Sushma had asked Manmohan why the convoy was looted? The year was 2011. The debate on business rule was going on in the Lok Sabha. The opposition was constantly attacking Manmohan Singh. Meanwhile, Singh got up and read a sher of Allama Iqbal, ‘I agree that I am not worthy of your sister, you see my hobby, see my wait.’
As soon as Manmohan Singh sat down, Sushma Swaraj said that I also want to answer the lion with a lion. He read ‘Idhar udhar ki tu na baat kar, yeh bata ki kafila kyun luta’. This counter-attack of both of them is still seen a lot on YouTube and other places.
Bashir Badr, Dushyant and Nida Fazli are the most popular
Bashir Badr’s poem ‘Do enmity fiercely, but leave room’, Nida Fazli’s poem ‘Hume girakar sambhal sako to chalo’ and Dushyant Kumar’s poem ‘There is no land under your feet’ are very popular among MPs.
Apart from this, MPs also use the lions of Allama Iqbal, Muzaffar Rajmi and Rahat Indori very well. Excerpts from the poems of Adam Gondvi and Sahir Ludhianvi are also used in the speeches.
