Sakshi Raj with her new laptop and (right) deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi’s private secretary Shailendra Ojha on Wednesday. Picture by Jai Prakash

Sakshi Raj will now sing paeans to Lalu Prasad with help from a laptop gifted by Sushil Kumar Modi.

Sakshi, 13, made her journey back home to Ara on Wednesday evening with a smile that was hard to fade — natural for a Class VIII student.

Asked what Sakshi — who has three albums to her credit — will do with the laptop, she says: “I will use it to download the latest songs and also save important files from my stage shows and other recordings.”

It’s not known which songs the teenager, who was accompanied by her brother Amit Kumar when she went to the deputy chief minister’s janata durbar on Tuesday, has started downloading, but persons close to her family said that she has begun recording songs for Lalu’s Parivartan Yatra. The city will be treated to a presentation from Sakshi on May 15 when the Parivartan Yatra returns to Gandhi Maidan.

Even before Lalu asks for parivartan or change at the rally, Sakshi stood out as a symbol of change. Hardly anyone is given an opportunity to pen down lyrics for songs to be presented on stage at a rally by opposition parties, but Modi seems to be different.

No sooner had the deputy chief minister’s aide Uma Shankar and private secretary Shailendra Ojha presented Sakshi the laptop — a branded one with 2GB RAM and 320GB hard disk that comes with a tag of Rs 25,999 — she unwrapped it with childish joy. “Is Modi uncle there?” she asked the officials. “Modiji is a bit busy but he wished you all the best. The laptop is all yours,” Shankar told her.

Modi did know what Sakshi might do with the laptop as she had received a cheque of Rs 51,000 from Lalu after impressing the RJD chief at one of his Parivartan rallies in January.

In fact, Sakshi had a grouse against Modi as she had had to visit his janata durbar at least twice before the deputy chief minister kept his promise of a laptop, made in November 2011. In contrast, Lalu’s promise was realised in almost no time, the cheque arrived in flat 16 days.

At least this time, Modi did not break his promise to the girl. Her brother Amit called upon Shankar around 11am on Wednesday and was asked to visit Modi’s residence at 1 Polo Road between 4pm and 4.30pm. With Amit, an excited Sakshi reached Modi’s house a little before 4pm and got the laptop.

Before taking the Ara-bound passenger train at 6.30pm on Wednesday, Sakshi told The Telegraph: “I am very happy to get the laptop after waiting for almost two years.”

To celebrate Sakshi’s return with one of the most invaluable gifts, her happy elder sisters Pooja Kumari and Neha Kumari, elder brother Satish Kumar and mother Aarti Devi had prepared kheer and poori

During the one-and-a-half-hour train journey back home, Sakshi did not part with the laptop for a second. She was planning to put it to better use, perhaps by composing the musical notes for the May 15 Gandhi Maidan rally.