Bihar Chief Minister and JD(U) Chief Nitish Kumar will launch the party’s election campaign for the year 2017 Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh. He will launch it by addressing a worker’s rally in Varanasi on May 12.

Bihar Mahila JD(U) president Kanchan Gupta said, “Nitish Kumar will address a workers’ meeting in Varanasi on May 12 to launch UP poll campaign with a focus on prohibition.”

Kancham Gupta also said focusing on women voters that “the crime rate has declined by almost 40% in Bihar after prohibition was imposed and women were also happy.”

Gupta added The Bihar example of establishing “Samtamulak Samaj”, a society with equal opportunity for all can be repeated in Uttar Pradesh.