Bihar, May 14: Former Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi's last rites were performed at the Digha Ghat in Patna on Friday. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader was given state honours during his last rites.

Sushil Modi passed away at Delhi's All-India Institute of Medical Sciences on Monday evening after battling cancer for seven months. He was 72.
BJP president JP Nadda, along with Bihar Deputy Chief Ministers Samrat Choudhary and Vijay Sinha paid tributes to Sushil Modi at the party office. Nadda said that Sushil Modi had spent 40 years of his life in association with the party, from the days when it was known as the Bharatiya Jana Sangh.

"It is a matter of grief that a senior leader and a person who took forward the BJP's ideology--Sushil Modi is not with us anymore. He left us when he was middle-aged. Sushil ji was one of those leaders who spent 40 years of his life from Bharatiya Jana Sangh to Bharatiya Janata Party," Nadda said speaking to ANI on Tuesday.

Sushil Modi announced his treatment last month and did not participate in the Lok Sabha election campaign. Over his three-decade-long political career, Sushil Modi played a pivotal role in shaping Bihar's political environment. Sushil Modi held various positions in his three-decade-long political career. He served as an MLA, MLC and member of the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha.

He served as the Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar from 2005 to 2013 and again from 2017 to 2020.

(ANI)