Sushil Kumar Modi
Sushil Kumar Modi is an Indian politician from the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha from Bihar. He was the Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar as well as the Finance Minister from 2005 to 2020.
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Sushil Kumar Modi is an Indian politician from the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha from Bihar. He was the Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar as well as the Finance Minister from 2005 to 2020. Modi was arrested five times during JP Movement and the Emergency. He belongs to Modh-Teli community, a caste categorised as an OBC. He has done BSc from B N College, Patna. He graduated Patna Science College and did Botany Hons in 1973. Modi married Jessie George in 1987. The couple has two sons Utkarsh tathagat and Akshay Amritanshu.
Modi is a lifelong member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. He led a movement against the declaration of Urdu as the second language of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. During the Emergency he was arrested on 30 June 1975 and kept in the prisons of Samastipur, Darbhanga, Buxar, Hazaribagh, Bhagalpur and also in the PMCH Prisoner Ward and remained in Jail for 19 months continuously. Modi has also been vocal in supporting the popularisation of yoga among Indians.
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