2006 Rajya Sabha elections

2006 Rajya Sabha elections

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(of 228 seats) to the Rajya Sabha
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Rajya Sabha elections were held on various dates in 2006, to elect members of the Rajya Sabha, Indian Parliament's upper chamber. The elections were held to elect respectively one member from Sikkim, ^[1] 58 members from 15 states, ^[2] two members from Jharkhand, ^[3] and three members from Kerala, ^{[4] [5]} for the Council of States, the Rajya Sabha. ^[6]

Elections

Elections were held to elect members from various states.

Members elected

The following members are elected in the elections held in 2006. The list is incomplete.

State - Member - Party

Rajya Sabha members for term 2006-2012

State	Member Name	Party	Remark
SK [1]	O. T. Lepcha	SDF
DL	Dr Karan Singh	INC	R
DL	Janardan Dwivedi	INC
DL	Parvez Hashmi	INC
AP [2]	Syed Azeez Pasha	CPI
AP	K. Keshava Rao	INC
AP	Dasari Narayana Rao	INC
AP	Raashid Alvi	INC
AP	G. Sanjeeva Reddy	INC
AP	M. V. Mysura Reddy	TDP
BH [2]	Ravi Shankar Prasad	BJP	R
BH	Mahendra Prasad	JDU
BH	Ali Anwar	JDU
BH	Anil Kumar Sahani	JDU
BH	Rajniti Prasad	RJD
BH	Jabir Husain	RJD
CG [2]	Shreegopal Vyas	BJP	R
GJ [2]	Arun Jaitley	BJP	R
GJ	Vijay Rupani	BJP
GJ	Kanjibhai Patel	BJP
GJ	Praveen Rashtrapal	INC
HR [2]	Shadi Lal Batra	INC
HP [2]	Viplove Thakur	INC
JH [2]	S. S. Ahluwalia	BJP
JH	Mabel Rebello	INC
KA [2]	Hema Malini	BJP
KA	K. B. Shanappa	BJP
KA	K. Rahman Khan	INC
KA	Rajeev Chandrasekhar	IND
MP [2]	Kaptan_Singh_Solanki	BJP
MP	Anusuiya Uikey	BJP
MP	Meghraj Jain	BJP
MP	Narayan Singh Kesari	BJP
MP	Vikram Verma	BJP
MP	Hans Raj Bhardwaj	INC	res 29/06/2009 Govr KA
MH [2]	Balavant Apte	BJP
MH	Manohar Joshi	SS
MH	Vilasrao Deshmukh	INC
MH	Rajeev Shukla	INC
MH	Govindrao Adik	NCP
MH	Ranjitsinh Mohite-Patil	NCP	R
OR [2]	Rudra Narayan Pany	BJP
OR	Kishore Kumar Mohanti	BJD
OR	Sushila Tiriya	INC
RJ [2]	Ramdas Agarwal	BJP
RJ	Narendra Budania	INC
RJ	Abhishek Manu Singhvi	INC
UP [2]	Kalraj Mishra	BJP
UP	Vinay Katiyar	BJP
UP	Naresh Agrawal	SP
UP	Veerpal Singh Yadav	SP
UP	Mahendra Mohan	SP
UP	Jai Prakash	BSP
UP	Banwari Lal Kanchhal	SP	res 23/04/2009
UP	Ganga Charan Rajput	SP	ele 19/06/2009
UP	Pramod Kureel	BSP
UP	Munkad	BSP
UP	Mahmood Madani	RLD
UK [2]	Satyavrat Chaturvedi	INC
WB [2]	Tapan Kumar Sen	CPM
WB	Moinul Hassan	CPM
WB	Saman Pathak	CPM
WB	R. C. Singh	AIFB
WB	Mukul Roy	TMC
JH [3]	S. S. Ahluwalia	BJP
JH	Mabel Rebello	INC
KL [4]	P. J. Kurien	INC
KL	K. E. Ismail	CPI
KL	P. R. Rajan	CPM

Bye-elections

The following bye elections were held in the year 2006.

State - Member - Party

• Bye-elections were held on 28/03/2006 for vacancy from Orissa due to the expulsion of seating member Dr Chhattrapal Singh Lodha on 23 December 2005 with term ending on 1 July 2010 ^[7]

• Bye-elections were held on 15/06/2006 for vacancy from Uttar Pradesh due to disqualification of seating member Jaya Bachchan on 16.03.2006 with term ending on -- and due to resignation of seating member Anil Ambani on 29.03.2006 with term ending on -- ^[8]

• Bye-elections were held on 15/06/2006 for vacancy from Maharashtra and Jammu and Kashmir due to death of seating member Pramod Mahajan on 03.05.2006 with term ending on -- and due to resignation of seating member Ghulam Nabi Azad on 29.04.2006 with term ending on -- ^[8]

• Bye-elections were held on 13/07/2006 for vacancy from Tamil Nadu due to resignation of seating member R. Sarath Kumar on 31 May 2006, with term ending on 24 July 2007 ^[9]

• Bye-elections were held on 18/09/2006 for vacancy from Maharashtra due to death of seating member Vasant Chavan on 11 July 2006, with term ending on 2 April 2012 ^[10]

• Bye-elections were held on 11/12/2006 for vacancy from Uttar Pradesh due to death of seating member Lalit Suri on 10 October 2006, with term ending on 4 July 2010 ^[11]

References

1. "Biennial Election to the Council of States from the State of Sikkim" (PDF). Election Commission of India, New Delhi. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 January 2012. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
2. "Biennial Elections to the Council of States to fill the seats of members retiring in April, 2012" (PDF). Election Commission of India, New Delhi. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 April 2014. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
3. "Biennial Election to the Council of States from the State of Jharkhand" (PDF). Election Commission of India, New Delhi. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 April 2014. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
4. "Biennial and Bye-Elections to the Council of States" (PDF). Election Commission of India, New Delhi. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 April 2014. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
5. "Rajya Sabha – Retirements – Abstract As on 1 November 2006" (PDF). eci.nic.in. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 October 2010. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
6. "Alphabetical List Of Former Members Of Rajya Sabha Since 1952". Rajya Sabha Secretariat, New Delhi. Retrieved 13 September 2017.
7. "Bye-election to the Council of States from Orissa to fill up the vacancy occurring due to expulsion of sitting member Dr. Chhattrapal Singh Lodha" (PDF). ECI, New Delhi. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 May 2016. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
8. "Bye-elections to the Council of States from Jammu & Kashmir, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh to fill up the vacancies occurring due to disqualification/death/resignation of sitting members" (PDF). ECI, New Delhi. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 May 2016. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
9. "Bye-election to the Council of States from Tamil Nadu to fill up the vacancy occurring due to resignation of sitting member Shri R. Sarath Kumar" (PDF). ECI, New Delhi. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 May 2016. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
10. "Bye-election to the Council of States from Maharashtra to fill up the vacancy occurring due to the death of sitting member Shri Chavan, Vasant Chhotelal" (PDF). ECI, New Delhi. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 May 2016. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
11. "Bye-election to the Council of States ( Rajya Sabha) from Uttar Pradesh caused due to death of Shri Lalit Suri and Maharashtra Legislative Council from Aurangabad Division Teachers Constituency caused due to death of Shri Vasant Shankarrao Kale" (PDF). ECI, New Delhi. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 May 2016. Retrieved 3 October 2017.