India, April 23 -- Election strategist-turned-politician Prashant Kishor has said that if his party, Jan Suraaj, is elected to power in the upcoming Bihar assembly elections later this year, the state's liquor ban will be lifted within an hour.

"Ek ghante mein hata denge. (The liquor ban will be lifted within an hour once we come to power.) There is no real liquor ban in Bihar. There is a law in place that has shut down liquor shops and started home delivery," Kishor said in an interview with Live Hindustan.

"This law needs to be removed because Bihar is losing 15 to 20 thousand crore rupees every year due to it. And this money is going to the liquor mafia," he added.

He also said that those who claim liquor prohibition in Bihar is ben...