RLSP to contest 100-125 seats in UP assembly polls next yr:

NDA constituent Rashtriya Lok Samata Dal will contest 100-125 seats in next year's Uttar Pradesh assembly polls if it doesn't enter into alliance with any party, its President and Union Minister Upendra Kushwaha said today.
"Our party's Uttar Pradesh unit has identified 100-125 assembly constituencies where the party will undertake pre-poll activities.
"We may change the number of seats to be contested if we happen to enter into alliance with any party. Else, we will contest all the seats identified," he said.
Speaking to reporters after his party's national executive meeting here, Kushwaha also hit out at ruling JD(U)-RJD combine in Bihar over the killing of a journalist in the state's Siwan district, saying the state is returning to the pre-2005 "era of terrorism" and asked Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to take immediate cognisance of reports of violence.

Targeting Kumar on the killing of the Siwan journalist Rajdeo Ranjan, Kushwaha said the Chief Minister is "not taking interest in the state's affairs and is roaming outside" even as criminals are "ruling the roost" in Bihar.
Even journalists are not safe in Bihar. The Chief Minister is not taking any interest in the state's affairs and is roaming outside. Bihar is returning to the pre-2005 period of violence and terrorism against which we fought. He should take cognisance of the incident immediately," Kushwaha said.
Kushwaha said his party will undertake a two-month membership drive across the country beginning June 1.

The meeting was attended by 11 state unit presidents of Rashtriya Lok Samata Party, besides 10 of its general secretaries.