Sushil Kumar Modi Dies: Sushil Kumar Modi, senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar, died late Monday evening.
He served as the Finance Minister of Bihar from 2005 to 2013 and from 2017 to 2020. He was also the BJP Rajya Sabha MP.
Sushil Kumar Modi, 72, had on April 3 revealed that he has been battling cancer for the past six months and will not feature in the BJP’s plans for the Lok Sabha elections 2024.
He was admitted to AIIMS, New Delhi.
He had, on April 3, posted on X: “पिछले 6 माह से कैंसर से संघर्ष कर रहा हूँ । अब लगा कि लोगों को बताने का समय आ गया है । लोक सà¤ा चुनाव में कुछ कर नहीं पाऊँगा । PM को सब कुछ बता दिया है । देश, बिहार और पार्टी का सदा आà¤ार और सदैव समर्पित | (I have been battling cancer for the last 6 months. Now I feel that the time has come to tell people. I will not be able to do anything in the Lok Sabha elections. I have told everything to the PM. Always grateful and always dedicated to the country, Bihar and the party.”
पिछले 6 माह से कैंसर से संघर्ष कर रहा हूँ । अब लगा कि लोगों को बताने का समय आ गया है । लोक सà¤ा चुनाव में कुछ कर नहीं पाऊँगा ।
PM को सब कुछ बता दिया है ।
देश, बिहार और पार्टी का सदा आà¤ार और सदैव समर्पित |— Sushil Kumar Modi (मोदी का परिवार ) (@SushilModi) April 3, 2024
Sushil Modi was a prominent face of the BJP in Bihar and served as the Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar from 2017 to 2020, as well as the Finance Minister of the state from 2005 to 2013.
He was a part of the BJP’s 27-member Election Manifesto Committee headed by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh.
He had a long political career spanning four decades in which he served as an MLA, an MLC, a Lok Sabha MP, and a Rajya Sabha MP. He emerged from the 1974 JP Movement, along with the likes of Lalu Yadav and Nitish Kumar.
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