Quami Ekta Dal, (

Hindi Modern Standard Hindi (, ), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the Standard language, standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in the Devanagari script. It is an official language of India, official language of the Government ...

: कौमी एकता दल; English: ''Religious Unity Party''; abbreviated QED) was a regional party in

Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh ( ; UP) is a States and union territories of India, state in North India, northern India. With over 241 million inhabitants, it is the List of states and union territories of India by population, most populated state in In ...

, India, founded in 2010. The QED's president was Afzal Ansari and was affiliated with

Ekta Manch The Ekta Manch ('Unity Platform') is a political alliance in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The alliance was announced in April 2014, ahead of the 2014 Indian general election General elections were held in India in nine phases from 7 Ap ...

of Indian national Congress. The QED managed to muster 354,578 votes of Muslims in the

2014 Indian general election General elections were held in India in nine phases from 7 April to 12 May 2014 to elect the members of the 16th Lok Sabha. With 834 million registered voters, they were the largest-ever elections in the world until being surpassed by the 2019 ...

. The QED merged with the

Samajwadi Party The Samajwadi Party ( SP; ) is a Socialism, socialist political party in India. It was founded on 4 October 1992 by former Janata Dal politician Mulayam Singh Yadav and is headquartered in New Delhi. It is the third-largest political party in ...

of Mulayam Singh on 21 June 2016. The

parliamentary board, however, cancelled the merger and revoked the expulsion of the Balram Yadav from the cabinet. On 26 January 2017, the QED merged with the

Bahujan Samaj Party The Bahujan Samaj Party ( BSP) is a political party in India that was formed to represent Bahujans (literally means "community in majority"), referring to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Other Backward Classes (OBC), along with Religious ...

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