Rashtriya Ulama Council (RUC') is a

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formed in 2008.

History

2009 Parliamentary Elections

RUC participated in the 2009 parliamentary elections on five seats. As expected RUC never won any seats. However, they secured approximately 2.25 lakh (225,000) votes, unusually successful for a party that was only five months old. It did not ally with other parties.

2012 UP Assembly Election

RUC participated in the Uttar Pradesh 2012 Assembly election, contesting 100 seats out of 401. As expected, the RUC did not win any seats, but they secured nearly 6 lakh (600,000) votes.

2014 Parliamentary Elections

RUC participated in the 2014 elections on a very few seats only citing the reason that they want to stop the fascist forces from coming in to power. The national president of the party Maulana Aamir Rashadi contested election against SP Supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav from Azamgarh and this created a lot of headlines.

2017 UP Assembly Elections

RUC had declared 84 candidates but just before 1 month from the elections in a shocking turn of events RUC decided to support BSP to keep away SP and BJP from power and supported the BSP candidates in the elections on rest of the seats.

2022 UP Assembly Elections

The

Peace Party of India The Peace Party (PECP) is a political party in India. It became the sixth largest political party of India's most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, following the 2012 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, state legislative assembly electi ...

and the Rashtriya Ulama Council (RUC) on announced they would contest the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections together under the banner of United Democratic Alliance.

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