Rashtriya Ulama Council (RUC') is a political party of India formed in 2008.

[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.