Remarks over ‘Ashoka the Great’ create fresh tension in ruling NDA

Trouble started after Padma Shree awardee and Sahitya Academy award-winning writer Daya Prakash Sinha compared Ashoka with Aurangzeb, suggesting that both were cruel rulers and committed lots of sins in their initial days. What has irked the JD-U is that Sinha describes himself as the national convener for BJP (Cultural Cell).