In the 2002 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections Payal Kinner (registered as a female candidate) contested the Lucknow West seat.
Kishore has been inducted as a minister of state in Mulayalam Singh Yadav's cabinet in Uttar Pradesh.
RCP has however developed closer relations to Indian National Congress.
Kishore stood as a candidate in Mohanlalganj in the Lok Sabha elections in 2004 obtaining 28 757 votes (5.03%).
RCP participates in the Confederation of Indian Communists and Democratic Socialists.