Venkiah Naidu to attend function to hail Sushil Modi feat

Union minister Venkiah Naidu, Goa Governor Mridula Sinha and Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das would join scores of politicians here on March 27 to celebrate completion of 25 years of Parliamentary career of senior BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi.
Six Union ministers from Bihar -- Radha Mohan Singh, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Dharmendra Pradhan, Ramkripal Yadav and Giriraj Singh -- will also be present, said Independent MLC Devesh Chandra Thakur, who is convenor of organising committee of the programme.
Thakur, once a close aide of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar but now tipped to join BJP soon, today said it would be a non-political event to celebrate completion of 25 years of Parliamentary career of Modi.

He said invitation would also be extended to RJD President Lalu Prasad, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, his predecessor Jitan Ram Manjhi and former Chief Minister Jagannath Mishra.
Modi's political life began in his student days and he was General Secretary of Patna University Students Union from 1973 to '78 during which "JP movement" took place. Lalu Prasad was the president of the union that time.
A lifelong member of the RSS, Modi married Jessie George in 1987 in an inter-religious marriage.

His electoral career started in 1990 when he won state Assembly election from Patna Central seat. He was re-elected in 1995, 2000.

He was elected from Bhagalpur constituency in Lok Sabha election in 2004. After NDA came to power in Bihar in November 2005, he returned to state politics and served as Deputy Chief Minister in the government headed by Nitish Kumar.
He has been member of Legislative Council since then.