Rashtravadi Communist Party

{{Use dmy dates, date=October 2015 Rashtravadi Communist Party (Nationalist Communist Party), a political party in

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. RCP was floated by social worker Kaushal Kishore. Kishore had been expelled from

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in 2001. He had and contested assembly elections twice for CPI. In the 2002 assembly elections Kishore won in the Malihabad seat. Kishore got 62 571 votes (47.37%). Kishore as a stable backing from the Pasi community. RCP and Kishore fights for the conditions and rights of hijras. RCP has nominated hijras in elections. In the 2002 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections Payal Kinner (registered as a female candidate) contested the

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West seat. Payal got 1680 votes (1,34%). Kishore has been inducted as a minister of state in Mulayalam Singh Yadav's cabinet in

. RCP has however developed closer relations to

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. Kishore stood as a candidate in Mohanlalganj in the

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elections in 2004 obtaining 28 757 votes (5,03%). RCP participates in the

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