Sushil Kumar Modi

Sushil Kumar Modi Biography

Sushil Kumar Modi was active in organising and mobilising the school students and was appointed Commandment by the Civil Defense to train the civilians and students to maintain their physical fitness and teach them to parade. In 1962, Modi became a member of Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS).

In 1968, he did a Three Year Officer’s Training Course (OTC), the highest RSS training course. Sushil Kumar Modi was a student leader at Patna University Students Union was General Secretary of Student’s Union in 1973. Lalu Prasad Yadav was the President of the Union that time.

In 1974 he became a Member of Bihar Pradesh Chaatra (Student) Sangharsh Samiti which spearheaded the famous Bihar Student’s Movement of 1974. Modi married Jessie George in 1987 in an inter-caste and an inter-religious marriage. Jessie George hails from Mumbai.

From 1996 till 2004 he was the Leader of Opposition in the State Assembly. He filed the Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in the Patna High Court against Lalu Yadav, which was later known as fodder scam.

He became a member of Lok Sabha in 2004 representing the constituency of Bhagalpur. He was the Minister for Parliamentary Affairs in a short lived Nitish Kumar government in 2000. He is looked upon as future chief minister of Bihar if BJP manages to win coming election of Bihar state assembly.

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Updated: April 02, 2015