1996 Rajya Sabha elections

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

Elections were held in 1996 to elect members from various states. The list is incomplete.

Members elected

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

Rajya Sabha members for term 1996-2002
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

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

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