Sushil Kumar Modi

Sushil Kumar Modi (5 January 1952 – 13 May 2024) was an Indian politician from the Bharatiya Janata Party who was a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha from Bihar. He was a Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar as well as the Finance Minister of Bihar from 2005 to 2013 and 2017 to 2020. He was a lifelong member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. He was appointed the chairman of the Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers for the Implementation of Goods and Service Tax in July 2011. He was posthumously honored with the Padma Bhushan, India's third-highest civilian award, by the Government of India.