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
editElections were held in 1996 to elect members from various states. The list is incomplete.
Members elected
editThe 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
editThe 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.