Rashtriya Ulama Council (RUC) | |
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| President | Aamir Rashadi Madni |
| Spokesperson | Talha Aamir Rashadi |
| Founded | 4 October 2008 |
| Newspaper | RUC Awaaz |
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| Website | |
| www.ulamacouncil.org | |
Rashtriya Ulama Council (RUC') is a political party of India formed in 2008.
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. [1]
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. [2]
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 [3] against SP Supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav from Azamgarh and this created a lot of headlines. [4] [5]
RUC had declared 84 candidates [6] but just before 1 month from the elections in a shocking turn of events RUC decided to support BSP [7] to keep away SP [8] and BJP [9] from power and supported the BSP candidates in the elections on rest of the seats. [10]
The Peace Party of India 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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