UP Assembly polls 2017: JD(U) to form alliance, says KC Tyagi

Nitish Kumar-led Janata Dal(U) on Saturday said it will forge an alliance in Uttar Pradesh to contest the 2017 assembly elections and disclose its partners in the coming months.

"JD(U) will form a coalition in Uttar Pradesh to contest the 2017 assembly elections. The names of the coalition partners would be disclosed in coming some months," JD(U) National General Secretary and Rajya Sabha MP, K C Tyagi told a press conference on Saturday.

He also said Bihar Chief Minister and Janata Dal(U) president Nitish Kumar will be visiting Varanasi on May 12 to address the party's workers convention and exhort party workers to prepare themselves for the 2017 assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh.

Earlier, the Bihar CM was to visit on May 4 and address the workers' convention at Cutting memorial school ground but it has now been shifted to a college in Pindra area.