Political Career
In 1990, he joined active politics and successfully contested from Patna Central Assembly. He was re-elected in 1995, 2000. In 1990, he was made the Chief Whip of the BJP Bihar Legislature Party. From 1996 till 2004 he was the Leader of Opposition in the State Assembly. He filed the Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in the Patna High Court against Lalu Yadav, which was later known as fodder scam. He became member of Lok Sabha in 2004 representing the constituency of Bhagalpur. He was the Minister for Parliamentary Affairs in a short lived Nitish Kumar government in 2000. He supported the formation of the State of Jharkhand. In 2005 Bihar election, NDA came to power and Modi was elected the leader of Bihar BJP Legislature Party. He subsequently resigned from the Lok Sabha and took over as the Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar. He was given the Finance Portfolio along with a number of other portfolios. After NDA victory in 2010 Bihar elections, he continued to be the Deputy chief minister of Bihar.
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