Updated: November 27, 2020 9:46:10 pm
Sushil Kumar Modi was replaced as Senior Deputy Minister in Bihar’s new cabinet
BJP appointed former Bihar deputy chief minister on Friday Sushil Kumar Modi, his candidate for the seat in the Rajya Sabha by-elections it became vacant due to the death of LJP Patriarch Ram Vilas Paswan. Modi’s election to the Upper House is almost certain, as the NDA has a majority in the state assembly.
In the 243-member House, the NDA candidate needs the support of 122 MLAs to retain Rajya Sabha’s seat; the alliance has 125. The Election Commission of India has said that the by-election for the only seat of Rajya Sabha will be held on December 14.
In addition to Modi, who was replaced as deputy minister in Bihar’s new cabinet, some other names who participated in the rounds were BJP national spokesman Syed Shahnawaz Hussain, and Rituraj Sinha, son of Rajya Sabha member RK Sinha. The name of the mother of LJP chief Chirag Paswan, Reena Paswan, was also circulating.
In place of Modi, BJP chose two of its leaders: Tarkishore Prasad and Renu Devi – as CM deputy in the recently formed council of ministers. The elevation of the two leaders was seen as part of the BJP’s transfer of power from the previous generation of leaders. composed by the trio of Sushil Kumar Modi, Nand Kishore Yadav and Prem Kumar (all three were ministers in the previous government) for the younger group.
Ram Vilas Paswan, whose term was until April 2, 2024, received the seat in the Upper House as part of the 2019 Lok Sabha shared seating agreement between BJP and LJP, which included six Lok Sabha seats and one Rajya Sabha seat. The LJP won all six Lok Sabha seats it contested.
Modi, 68, became an RSS worker and joined active politics only in the mid-1980s. Sushil Modi first became Senior Deputy Minister in 2005, when Nitish came to power, and held office. position since then, except when Jitan Ram Manjhi was Chief Minister between 2014 and 2015, and when JD (U) was with RJD in 2015. 2017.
Sushil Modi is known to be quite close to Nitish, as the two are together in the JP Movement of the 1970s, a proximity that many within the BJP see as an obstacle to the party’s ambitions in the state.
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