at Patna. RLSP was the leading party of the Grand Democratic Secular Front, which contested the 2020
Bihar Legislative Assembly elections with
Upendra Kushwaha as the
Chief Ministerial candidate. The
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen announced an alliance with
Samajwadi Janata Dal Democratic ahead of the 2020 elections in Bihar.
RLSP,
BSP and PSP declared another alliance for upcoming Bihar election. However these two separate coalition of political parties merged and formed a brand new alliance named Grand Democratic Secular Front and declared
Upendra Kushwaha as its Chief Ministerial candidate for Bihar. According to its leaders, the alliance was forged to converge the
Dalit,
OBC and
Muslim votes. The bloc's ticket distribution plan gave due weightage to caste and communal representation in various constituencies. It was decided that the
Rashtriya Lok Samta Party will contest on 104 out of 243 seats of the Bihar Assembly while
Bahujan Samaj Party was to contest on 80 seats. The other members like
AIMIM and
Samajwadi Janata Dal were given 24 and 25 seats respectively while the minor players like
Suhaldev Bhartiya Samaj Party and
Janwadi Party Socialist were to contest 5-5 seats each. In the first phase of the election RLSP contested on 42 seats. Relying upon its vote base which is
Kushwaha caste, RLSP fielded 40% Kushwaha candidates in the elections . The Grand Democratic Secular Front of which RLSP was a constituent member relied primarily upon the votes of castes like Kushwahas, Ravidasis, and
Muslims. RLSP in the first phase of elections contested a total of 42 seats amongst which it gave ticket to 17 candidates of Kushwaha caste while its ally
AIMIM placed its candidates in Muslim dominated areas of Bihar. Similarly in the list of its 37 candidates in the second phase also Koeri candidates were dominant accounting for 18 seats. The Grand Democratic Secular front however failed to perform as it claimed earlier in the Bihar Assembly Elections of 2020. Its only success was in obtaining six seats, five of which were won by AIMIM in the
Muslim dominated Simanchal region of Bihar. The Bahujan Samaj Party also won one seat but the RLSP, the principal political party of the alliance performed badly and failed to win any seats.
Performance in 2020 Bihar Assembly elections ==Defection of legislators and dormancy==