Sushil Kumar Modi, a senior BJP leader and former Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar, passed away on Monday at the age of 72. The former Deputy Chief Minister was battling cancer.
Modi was born on January 5, 1952, and attended Patna Science College, where he graduated with a B.Sc. (Hons) in Botany degree in 1973. He joined the social movement started by Jai Prakash Narayan after leaving his M.Sc. degree.
Modi’s political career began as a student activist at Patna University. He became the general secretary of the Patna University Students’ Union in 1973 and was arrested five times during the JP Movement and the Emergency, spending 19 months in jail.