Rashtriya Lok Dal president Ramashish Rai on July 8 said his party is planning to fight 12 seats in next year's Lok Sabha elections, adding that the RLD lost the status of a state party in Uttar Pradesh as it fought on fewer seats than it had desired to contest in the 2022 Assembly elections. Speaking to ANI, "We fought the last election in alliance with Samajwadi Party (SP) and we lost our state party status as we did not get the seats we demanded. Akhilesh Yadav and SP benefited more from the last election. We are preparing for 12 Lok Sabha seats so that we can win the maximum number of seats and get back our state party status." On April 10, the Election Commission revoked the state party status of the RLD as it had failed to bag 6 per cent of the total votes polled in the state. RLD, which fought the last state elections in UP with the SP, contested 33 seats, winning just 8.