Rajya Sabha elections were held in 1996, to elect members of the Rajya Sabha, Indian Parliament's upper house. 59 members from 17 states,[1] 1 member from Mizoram State,[2] and 15 members from 3 states of JK, UK and UP were elected.[3][4]
Elections[edit]
Elections were held in 1996 to elect members from various states. The list is incomplete.
Members elected[edit]
The following members are elected in the elections held in 1996. They are members for the term 1996-2002 and retire in year 2002, except in case of the resignation or death before the term.
State - Member - Party
| State | Member Name | Party | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maharashtra[1] | Suresh A Keswani | IND | R |
| Maharashtra | Vedprakash P. Goyal | BJP | |
| Maharashtra | Shankarrao Chavan | INC | |
| Maharashtra | Mukeshbhai R Patel | SS | |
| Maharashtra | Suryabhan Raghunath Patil Vahadane | BJP | |
| Maharashtra | Adhik Shirolkar | SS | |
| Maharashtra | N.K.P. Salve | INC | |
| Orissa[1] | Jayanti Patnaik | INC | Res 03/03/1998 LS |
| Orissa | Ananta Sethi | INC | |
| Orissa | Frida Topno | INC | |
| Orissa | Maurice Kujur | INC | |
| Orissa | Dilip Kumar Ray | BJD | |
| Tamil Nadu[1] | S Peter Alphonse | INC | Res 09/09/1997 |
| Tamil Nadu | S Peter Alphonse | TMC | fr 10/10/1997 |
| Tamil Nadu | N Shiva | DMK | |
| Tamil Nadu | R. Subbian | DMK | |
| Tamil Nadu | P. Soundararajan | AIADMK | |
| Tamil Nadu | xxx | AIADMK | 18.5.2001 |
| Tamil Nadu | S. Niraikulathan | AIADMK | |
| Tamil Nadu | R K Kumar | AIADMK | dea 03/10/1999 |
| Tamil Nadu | N Thalavi Sundaram | AIADMK | |
| Tamil Nadu | T M Venkatachalam | AIADMK | dea 02/12/1999 |
| West Bengal[1] | Dawa Lama | CPM | |
| West Bengal | Bratin Sengupta | CPM | |
| West Bengal | Prof Bharati Ray | CPM | |
| West Bengal | Md. Salim | CPM | res 25.5.2001 |
| West Bengal | Debabrata Biswas | AIFB | |
| Andhra Pradesh[1] | Nahata Jayaprada | TDP | |
| Andhra Pradesh | Dr Yelamanchili Radhakrishna Murthy | CPM | |
| Andhra Pradesh | Yarlagadda Lakshmi Prasad | TDP | |
| Andhra Pradesh | K M Saifullah | TDP | |
| Andhra Pradesh | Solipeta Ramachandra Reddy | TDP | |
| Andhra Pradesh | Daggubati Venkateswar Rao | TDP(NTR) | |
| Assam[1] | Karnendu Bhattacharjee | INC | |
| Assam | Basanti Sarma | INC | |
| Assam | Prakanta Warisa | ASDC | |
| Bihar[1] | Nagendra Nath Ojha | CPI | |
| Bihar | Prem Chand Gupta | JD | |
| Bihar | Jagdambi Mandal | JD | dea 13/01/2000 |
| Bihar | Ranjan Prasad Yadav | RJD | |
| Bihar | Shatrughan Prasad Sinha | BJP | |
| Bihar | Ram Deo Bhandari | RJD | |
| Bihar | Gyan Ranjan | INC | dea 22/04/1998 |
| Chhattisgarh[1] | Lakhiram Agrawal | BJP | fr 01/11/2000 |
| Chhattisgarh | Surendra Kumar Singh | INC | fr 01/11/2000 |
| Gujarat[1] | Anantray Devshanker Dave | BJP | |
| Gujarat | Laxmanji Bangaru Narsimha | BJP | |
| Gujarat | Gopalsinhji Gulabsinhji | BJP | |
| Gujarat | Brahmkumar Ranchhodlal Bhatt | INC | |
| Haryana [1] | Banarasi Das Gupta | INC | |
| Haryana | Lachhman Singh | INC | |
| Himachal Pradesh[1] | Chandresh Kumari | INC | |
| Jharkhand[1] | Obaidullah Khan Azmi | JD | |
| Jharkhand | Ven Dhamma Viriyo | RJD | |
| Karnataka[1] | H. D. Deve Gowda | JD | bye 23/09/1996 res 1998 LS |
| Karnataka | Leeladevi Renuka Prasad | JD | 22/04/1996 |
| Karnataka | C. M. Ibrahim | JD | |
| Karnataka | Ramakrishna Hegde | JD | |
| Karnataka | A. Lakshmisagar | JD | |
| Karnataka | S M Krishna | INC | Res 14/10/1999 |
| Karnataka | K. C. Kondaiah | INC | bye 14/01/2000 |
| Madhya Pradesh[1] | A G Qureshi | INC | |
| Madhya Pradesh | Suresh Pachouri | INC | |
| Madhya Pradesh | Sikandar Bakht | BJP | |
| Madhya Pradesh | Lakhiram Agrawal | BJP | till 31/10/2000 |
| Madhya Pradesh | Surendra Kumar Singh | INC | till 31/10/2000 |
| Rajashthan[1] | K.K. Birla | INC | |
| Rajashthan | Ramdas Agarwal | BJP | |
| Rajashthan | Dr Mahesh Chandra Sharma | BJP | |
| Meghalaya[1] | Onward L Nongtdu | INC | |
| Arunachal Pradesh[1] | Nabam Rebia | IND | |
| Mizoram [2] | Hiphei | INC | |
| Jammu and Kashmir | Prof Saifuddin Soz | JKNC | res 10/03/1998 LS |
| Jammu and Kashmir[4] | Kushok Nawang Chamba Stanzin | JKNC | Bye Apr 98 |
| Jammu and Kashmir[4] | Sharief-ud-Din Shariq | JKNC | |
| Jammu and Kashmir[4] | Ghulam Nabi Azad | INC | |
| Jammu and Kashmir[4] | Mirza Abdul Rashid | -- | |
| UP[4] | Akhilesh Das | BSP | |
| UP | Sunil Shastri | INC | |
| UP | Amar Singh | SP | |
| UP | Chunni Lal Chowdhary | BJP | dea 03/12/2000 |
| UP | Shyam Lal | BJP | fr 16/02/2001 |
| UP | Devi Prasad Singh | BJP | |
| UP | Gandhi Azad | BSP | |
| UP | R. N. Arya | BSP | |
| UP | Narendra Mohan | BJP | dea 20/09/2002 |
| UP | Rajnath Singh Surya | BJP | |
| UP | Balwant Singh Ramoowalia | SAD | |
| UP | Azam Khan | SP | res 09/03/2002 |
| UP | Manohar Kant Dhyani | BJP | from UP till 08/11/2000 |
| Uttarakhand [4] | Manohar Kant Dhyani | BJP | from UK onwards 09/11/2000 |
| Manipur | W. Angou Singh | INC |
Bye-elections[edit]
The following bye elections were held in the year 1996.
State - Member - Party
- HR - K L Poswal - INC ( ele 13/02/1996 term till 1998 )
- MH - Prof Ram Kapse - BJP ( ele 27/09/1996 term till 1998 )
- MH - Sanjay Nirupam - SS ( ele 27/09/1996 term till 2000 )
- UP - Dara_Singh_Chauhan - BSP ( ele 30/11/1996 term till 2000 ) res of Mayawati
- UP - Khan Ghufran Zahidi - INC ( ele 30/11/1996 term till 1998 )
- UP - Ahmad Wasim - INC ( ele 30/11/1996 term till 1998 )
- Tamil Nadu - V.K. Duraisamy - DMK ( ele 26/11/1996 term till 2001 ) res of V.K. Duraisamy fr AIADMK
- GJ - Yoginder K Alagh - IND ( ele 26/11/1996 term till 2000 ) res of
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r "Biennial elections to the Council of States (Rajya Sabha) to fill the Seats of members retiring on 02.04.2002, 09.04.2002, 12.04.2002 and 26.05.2002" (PDF). ECI New Delhi. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
- ^ a b "Biennial election to the Council of States from the State of Mizoram" (PDF). ECI new Delhi. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
- ^ "Alphabetical List Of Former Members Of Rajya Sabha Since 1952". Rajya Sabha Secretariat, New Delhi. Retrieved 13 September 2017.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Biennial elections to the Rajya Sabha to fill the seats of members retiring in November, 2002 and by e - elections to the Rajya Sabha and Legislative Council of Uttar Pradesh" (PDF). Retrieved 6 October 2017.
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