While Lalu Prasad Yadav's Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) may be the strongest party in the Bihar ruling alliance, the BJP believes that its road to success lies in the dismantlement of the support base of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal (United), which has long enjoyed the backing of a collection of non-Yadav backward castes and some Dalit communities.
Union Home minister Amit Shah will on Sunday attend programmes to mark the birth anniversary of the great Maurya emperor Ashoka.
On his fourth visit to Bihar in the last seven months, Shah's programmes are seen as part of the BJP's ambitious drive to woo the numerically strong Kushwaha (Koeri) community, which believes that the emperor came from their stock.
Believed to be around 7-8 per cent of the state's population the second highest after the Yadavs - the backward caste has often backed Kumar in the polls.
By appointing Samrat Choudhary, a Kushwaha, as its state unit president, the BJP has shown its intent to go all out to court the community.
Choudhary said the Bihar Chief Minister has done nothing for the community and only "betrayed" it, asserting that the BJP will get support from various communities in the state, which sends 40 MPs to the Lok Sabha.
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