RJD welcomes Padma Bhushan for Sushil Kumar Modi: ‘Though he was our adversary, we respected him as an opponent’

Senior BJP person and erstwhile Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, who started his governmental vocation on with Modi arsenic a functionary of the Patna University Students’ Union, said: “It is simply a substance of idiosyncratic reassurance for me. I callback teaming up with him successful exposing the fodder and bitumen scam of Bihar. Sushil ji was a precise dedicated and meticulous governmental worker. His relation arsenic Bihar concern curate and to the formulation of GST is simply a large publication to the assemblage polity of the country.”

JD(U) elder person and advisor K C Tyagi said: “I callback Sushil Kumar Modi arsenic 1 of the nicest and astir well-read politicians who scripted Bihar’s turnaround communicative with Nitish Kumar. The Padma Bhushan honour for him is simply a substance of pridefulness for each of us. Sushil ji was 1 of the politicians we did not similar to disagree with adjacent erstwhile we were successful other camps.”

Modi who was a crisp professional of RJD main Lalu Prasad passim his beingness besides got words of praise from the Opposition party. “It is simply a substance of pridefulness that a person coming from the JP Movement and belonging to the procreation of Lalu Prasad has been bestowed with the Padma award. Even though helium was our governmental adversary, we ever respected his governmental acumen and meticulous mentation arsenic an opponent,” said RJD nationalist spokesperson Subodh Kumar Mehta.

Congress spokesperson Gyan Ranjan Gupta said: “We hail the Centre’s determination for honouring the precocious Sushil Kumar Modi, whose governmental vocation is an inspiration for young procreation politicians. We were astatine times overawed with his probe connected the taxable helium would talk on. Beyond politics, helium would travel disconnected arsenic an affable idiosyncratic having friends successful each governmental party.”