Kushwaha to campaign for Uma in Charkhari

BJP’s Mahoba district president Chakramani Tripathi confirmed that Kushwaha would be the main speaker in the programme being organised by his morcha to target OBC voters,he said. This will be Kushwaha’s first programme in Mahoba.

“There are more than 35,000 Kushwaha community voters in Charkhari. Other backward castes like Saini,Pal,Prajapati and Maurya are also in large numbers there and they also have been invited to the February 14 programme,” said a BJP leader.

Kushwaha,who belongs to Banda district of Bundelkhand,had joined the BJP along with another ex-BSP minister Badshah Singh in New Delhi on January 3. After his induction was opposed by many party leaders,the party suspended his membership until he cleared his name in the NRHM scam.

Kushwaha had then formed ‘Pichda Varg Aarakshan Bachao Morcha’ to organise ‘pichda varg sammelans’ under its banner to protest the UPA government’s decision to provide 4.5 per cent reservation for backward Muslims within the 27 per cent reservation for OBCs.

BJP leaders say that Kushwaha’s programmes are helping the party. Kushwaha had addressed pichda varg sammelan in Basti and Ambedkar Nagar districts about three weeks ago.