Gentleman politician from JP era, Nitish's 'Lakshman', Sushil Modi leaves a void in Bihar

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Patna: In the political landscape of Bihar from 1990 to 2020, three figures stood out Lalu Prasad Yadav, Ram Vilas Paswan and Nitish Kumar..

The late economist Shaibal Gupta once remarked, Sushil Kumar Modi lacks the charisma of Nitish Kumar and Lalu Yadav, but he firmly believed Modi could have been an excellent chief minister for Bihar if given the opportunity...

Unfortunately for Modi, his prospects of becoming CM dimmed when his party chose Nitish Kumar as the National Democratic Alliances (NDA) chief ministerial candidate in the November 2005 assembly elections..

Meanwhile, on Tuesday, CM Nitish Kumar was supposed to go to Varanasi to attend Prime Minister Narendra Modis filing of nomination papers to contest in the constituency, but he cancelled his programme to mourn the death of one of his closest friends in the BJP...

After Nitish went with RJD again in 2022, he made a public statement saying that the JD(U)-BJP alliance would have remained intact had Sushil Modi been the deputy CM...

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