BJP bid to woo Kushwahas

Patna: BJP will celebrate the anniversary of coronation of founder of Maurya empire Chandragupta Maurya in a big way in Bihar on Tuesday and birth anniversary of Ashoka the Great on May 3 next year. Party general secretary Suraj Nandan Kushwaha claimed here on Sunday that Chandragupta and Ashoka were members of the Kushwaha caste.
Chandragupta and Ashoka will be projected in a big way by the party candidates in the next year’s assembly elections in Bihar, Kushwaha said and added 9% of the total electorate in Bihar were Kushwahas.The party would launch a statewide campaign to create awareness among the Kushwaha voters about their ancestors -Ashoka and Chandragupta.
Kushwaha, who is the president of All India Rashtrawadi Kushwaha Parishad too, said the two emperors expanded Magadh empire to 12 neighbouring countries. He said the Kushwahas would play a decisive role in formation of a new government in Bihar next year