"Khuda se kya maangu tere vaaste..." : Read Congress Lok Sabha leader Adhir Chowdhary's poem dedicated to Speaker Om Birla

Leaders of the Lok Sabha felicitated Om Birla after he was unanimously elected as the new Speaker of the lower house of Parliament. Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the Speaker and assured him of the support of the members of the Parliament in the decisions taken by the Speaker. 

Congress leader of Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhary also addressed the Speaker and expressed his party's commitment towards upholding parliamentary democracy. Chowdhary further said that as Speaker of this house, one needs to be impartial and protect the dignity and spirit of this house as the Speaker is the "presiding officer and custodian of the house and according to Nehru, represents the house, the freedom of the people and the nation itself."

Chowdhary concluded his address by dedicating a poem to Om Birla saying: "Khuda se kya maangu tere vaaste (What do I ask for you from God?), sada khushiyon se bhare hon tere raaste, (May your ways are always filled with happiness and prosperity), hansi tere chehre pe rahe is tarah, (I pray you always keep a smile on your face), khushboo phoolon ke saath rehti hai jis tarah ( just like the beautiful fragrance residing in flowers)". 

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Five-time MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury is the lone Congress MP from Bengal, representing Berhampore since 1999. He is also a former president of West Bengal Pradesh Congress from 2014 to 2018. In the UPA-2 government under former Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, he served as the Union Minister of State (MoS) for Railways.

He has replaced senior party leader and former Congress leader of Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge after he was defeated by BJP's Umesh Jadhav from Gulbarga, Karnataka, by a margin of 95,452 votes in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. 

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