2002 Rajya Sabha elections

2002 Rajya Sabha elections

←  2001 2003  →
(of 228 seats) to the Rajya Sabha
First party Second party   Leader Jaswant Singh Manmohan Singh Party BJP INC

Rajya Sabha elections were held in 2002, to elect members of the Rajya Sabha, Indian Parliament's upper chamber. The elections were held to elect respectively 56 members from 17 states and four seats from Karnataka, ^[1] four members from Jammu and Kashmir, ^[2] and 11 members from two states ^[3] for the Council of States, the Rajya Sabha. ^{[4] [5]}

Elections

Elections were held in 2002 to elect members from various states. The list is incomplete.

Members elected

The following members are elected in the elections held in 2002. They are members for the term 2002–2008 and retire in year 2008, except in case of the resignation or death before the term.

State - Member - Party

Rajya Sabha members for term 2002-2008

State	Member Name	Party	Remark
MH [1]	Ved Prakash Goyal	BJP	R
MH	Murli Deora	INC
MH	Prithviraj Chavan	INC
MH	Rajkumar Dhoot	SS
MH	Eknath Thakur	SS
MH	Datta Meghe	NCP
MH	Mukeshbhai R Patel	NCP	dea 15/06/2002
MH	P C Alexander	IND	bye 29/07/2002
Orissa [1]	Surendra Lath	BJD
Orissa	Pramila Bahidar	INC
Orissa	Sushree Devi	INC
Orissa	Dilip Kumar Ray	BJP
TN [1]	R. Shunmugasundaram	DMK
TN	G.K. Vasan	INC
TN	N. Jothi	ADMK
TN	S.P.M. Syed Khan	ADMK
TN	Thanga Tamil Selvan	ADMK
TN	C. Perumal	ADMK
WB [1]	Tarini Kanta Roy	CPM
WB	Debabrata Biswas	AIFB
WB	Prasanta Chatterjee	CPM
WB	Sk. Khabir Uddin Ahmed	CPM
WB	Dinesh Trivedi	AITC
AP [1]	T. Subbarami Reddy	INC
AP	Nandi Yellaiah	INC
AP	N. P. Durga	TDP
AP	Ravula Chandra Sheker Reddy	TDP
AP	S. M. Laljan Basha	TDP
AP	Akarapu Sudershan	-
AS [1]	Urkhao Gwra Brahma	IND
AS	Dwijendra Nath Sharmah	INC
AS	Karnendu Bhattacharjee	INC
BH [1]	Shatrughan Sinha	BJP	R
BH	Vashist Narain Singh	SP
BH	Magni Lal Mandal	RJD
BH	Ramdeb Bhandary	RJD
BH	Prem Chand Gupta	RJD
CG [1]	Motilal Vora	INC	R
CG	Ramdhar	INC
GJ [1]	Alka Balram Kshatriya	INC	R
GJ	Keshubhai Patel	BJP
GJ	Jana Krishnamurthi	BJP	dea 25/07/2007
GJ	Jayantilal Barot	BJP
HR [1]	Harendra Singh Malik	INLD
HR	Ram Prakash	INC
HP [1]	Suresh Bharadwaj	BJP	Res
JH [1]	Devdas Apte	BJP
JH	Ajay Kr. Masro	BJP
MP [1]	Suresh Pachouri	INC
MP	Maya Singh	BJP
MP	Mohd. Obedulla Khan	INC
MN [1]	Rishang Keishing	INC
RJ [1]	K. Natwar Singh	INC
RJ	Prabha Thakur	INC
RJ	Dr Ahmed Abrar	INC	dea 04/05/2004
RJ	Gyan Prakash Pilania	BJP
MG [1]	Robert Kharshiing	NCP
AR [1]	Nabam Rebia	INC
KA [1]	Janardhana Poojary	INC
KA	Prema Cariappa	INC
KA	M. V. Rajasekharan	INC
KA	Vijay Mallya	IND
Jammu and Kashmir [3] [2]	Tarlok Singh Bajwa	JKPDP
Jammu and Kashmir	Saifuddin Soz	INC
Jammu and Kashmir	Farooq Abdullah	JKNC
Jammu and Kashmir	Aslam Chowdhary Mohammad	JKPDP
UP [3]	Akhilesh Das	BSP	Res 08/05/2008
UP	Abu Asim Azmi	SP
UP	Amar Singh	SP
UP	Isam Singh	BSP	Disq 04/07/2008
UP	Uday Pratap Singh	SP
UP	Gandhi Azad	BSP
UP	Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi	BJP
UP	Rajnath Singh	BJP
UP	Veer Singh	BSP
UP	Shahid Siddiqui	SP
UK [3]	Harish Rawat	INC	R

Bye-elections

The following bye elections were held in the year 2002.

State - Member - Party

• Bye-elections were held on 30/05/2002 for vacancy from Tripura and Punjab due to election to Lok Sabha of seating member Khagan Das on 25.02.2002 with term ending on 02.04.2004 and due to resignation of seating member Balwinder Singh Bhunder on 07.03.2002 with term ending on 09.04.2004 ^[6]

• Bye-elections were held on 30/05/2002 for vacancy from Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand due to election to Lok Sabha of seating member Mohd. Azam Khan on 09.03.2002 with term ending on 25.11.2002 and due to resignation of seating member Dayanand Sahay on 19.03.2002 with term ending on 07.07.2004 ^[6]

• Bye-elections were held on 01/07/2002 for vacancy from Jharkhand due to election to JH Assembly of seating member Shibu Soren on 2 June 2002 with term ending on 2 April 2008. ^[7]

• Bye-elections were held on 01/07/2002 for vacancy from Maharashtra due to death of seating member Mukeshbhai R Patel on 15 June 2002 with term ending on 2 April 2008. ^[8] P C Alexander became member as IND candidate on bye 29/07/2002.

• Bye-elections were held on 18/11/2002 for vacancy from Uttar Pradesh due to resignation of seating member T N Chaturvedi on 20.8.2002 with term ending on --. ^[9]

References

1. "Biennial/Bye Elections to the Council of States (Rajya Sabha) and State Legislative Councils of Bihar and Maharashtra by (MLAs)-2008" (PDF). ECI New Delhi. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 May 2016. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
2. "Biennial Elections to the Council of States from the States of Jammu & Kashmir and Kerala" (PDF). Election Commission of India, New Delhi. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 May 2016. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
3. "Biennial Elections and Bye-Election to the Council of States" (PDF). Election Commission of India, New Delhi. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 May 2016. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
4. "Alphabetical List Of Former Members Of Rajya Sabha Since 1952". Rajya Sabha Secretariat, New Delhi. Retrieved 13 September 2017.
5. "RAJYA SABHA – RETIREMENTS – ABSTRACT As on 1st November, 2006" (PDF). eci.nic.in. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 October 2010. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
6. "Bye elections to fillup casual vacancies in Rajya Sabha" (PDF). ECI, New Delhi. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 May 2016. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
7. "Bye-election to the Council of States from the State of Jharkhand" (PDF). ECI, New Delhi. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 May 2016. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
8. "Bye-election to the Council of States from the State of Maharashtra" (PDF). ECI, New Delhi. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 May 2016. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
9. "Biennial elections to the Rajya Sabha to fill the seats of members retiring in November, 2002 and bye-elections to the Rajya Sabha and Legislative Council of Uttar Pradesh" (PDF). ECI, New Delhi. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 May 2016. Retrieved 3 October 2017.