EurasiaNet.org reports Tajikistan’s Interior Minister Ramazon Rahimzoda has reportedly written a poem in honor of President Emomali Rahmon.
The recent national outbreak of lyrical devotion to Emomali Rahmon was the result of a poetry competition announced by the Interior Ministry to mark the newly created President’s Day, to be henceforth observed annually on November 16.
The requisite tone was reportedly set in a state-run newspaper Jumhuriyat, which on November 9 published a ripe piece of verse consisting of 55 couplets entitled “In Praise of the Leader of the Nation.” The poem was signed under the enigmatic nom de plume Nihon, the Tajik word for secretive.
As Tajik news website Akhbor has revealed, Nihon is none other than Interior Minister Ramazon Rahimzoda.
According to Akhbor’s investigations, Rahimzoda has been honing his lyrical skills ever since he was a mere stripling of man, although he has refrained thus far from sharing his oeuvre with the world.
Meanwhile, BBC’s Russian Service reported earlier last month that a monument has been erected in Hisor Township, some 20 kilometers outside Dushanbe, in commemoration of a book written by Emomali Rahmon. The monument to “Tajiks in the Mirror of History”, consists a huge open book four meters long and six meters wide.
