2008 Rajya Sabha elections

2008 Rajya Sabha elections

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

Rajya Sabha elections were held on various dates in 2008, to elect members of the Rajya Sabha, Indian Parliament's upper chamber. The elections were held to elect respectively 55 members from 15 states, ^[1] four members from Karnataka and one member from Mizoram and Aruncahl Pradesh, ^[2] and 11 members from two states ^[3] for the Council of States, the Rajya Sabha.

Elections

Elections were held to elect members from various states.

Members elected

The following members are elected in the elections held in 2008. The list is incomplete.

State - Member - Party

Rajya Sabha members for term 2008-2014

State	Member Name	Party	Remark
MH [1]	Husain Dalwai	INC
MH	Murli Deora	INC
MH	Janardan Waghmare	NCP
MH	Yogendra P. Tiwari	NCP
MH	Rajkumar Dhoot	SS
MH	Bharatkumar Raut	SS
MH	Prakash Javadekar	BJP
OR [1]	Balbir Punj	BJP
OR	Mangala Kisan	BJD
OR	Renubala Pradhan	BJD
OR	Rama Chandra Khuntia	INC
TN [1]	S A A Jinnah	DMK
TN	Vasanthi Stanley	DMK
TN	G. K. Vasan	INC
TN	Jayanthi Natarajan	INC
TN	N. Balaganga	ADMK
TN	T. K. Rangarajan	CPM
WB [1]	Tarini Kanta Roy	CPM
WB	Barun Mukherji	AIFB
WB	Prasanta Chatterjee	CPM
WB	Shyamal Chakraborty	CPM
WB	Ahmed Saeed Malihabadi	IND
AP [1]	T. Subbarami Reddy	INC
AP	Nandi Yellaiah	INC
AP	Mohd. Ali Khan	INC
AP	T. Ratna Bai	INC
AP	K. V. P. Ramachandra Rao	INC
AP	Nandamuri Harikrishna	TDP
AS [1]	Biswajit Daimary	BPF
AS	Birendra Prasad Baishya	AGP
AS	Bhubaneswar Kalita	INC
BH [1]	C P Thakur	BJP	R
BH	Shivanand Tiwari	JDU
BH	N. K. Singh	JDU
BH	Sabir Ali	JDU
BH	Prem Chand Gupta	RJD
CG [1]	Motilal Vora	INC	R
CG	Shivpratap Singh	BJP
GJ [1]	Alka Balram Kshatriya	INC	R
GJ	Natuji Halaji Thakor	BJP
GJ	Parsottambhai Rupala	BJP
GJ	Bharatsinh Parmar	BJP
HR [1]	Ishwar Singh	INC
HR	Ram Prakash	INC
HP [1]	Shanta Kumar	BJP
JH [1]	Jai Prakash Narayan Singh	BJP
JH	Parimal Nathwani	IND
MP [1]	Prabhat Jha	BJP
MP	Maya Singh	BJP
MP	Raghunandan Sharma	BJP
MN [1]	Rishang Keishing	INC
RJ [1]	Om Prakash Mathur	BJP
RJ	Dr Gyan Prakash Pilania	BJP
RJ	Prabha Thakur	INC
MG [1]	Wansuk Syiem	INC
AR [2]	Mukut Mithi	INC
KA [2]	B. K. Hariprasad	INC
KA	S M Krishna	INC
KA	Prabhakar Kore	BJP
KA	Rama Jois	BJP
MZ [2]	Lalhmingliana	INC
UP [3]	Akhilesh Das Gupta	BSP
UP	Amar_Singh	BJP
UP	Avtar Singh Karimpuri	BSP
UP	Kusum Rai	BJP
UP	Brijlal Khabari	BSP
UP	Brajesh Pathak	BSP
UP	Rajaram	BSP
UP	Prof Ram Gopal Yadav	SP
UP	Veer_Singh	BSP
UP	Mohammad Adeeb	BSP
UK [3]	Bhagat Singh Koshyari	BJP

Bye-elections

The bye-elections were also held for the vacant seats from the State of Bihar, ^[4] Nagaland, West Bengal and Bihar, ^[5] West Bengal, ^[6] and Madhya Pradesh. ^[7]

• Bye-election was held on 26 March 2008 for vacancy from Bihar due to death of seating member Motiur Rahman on 18/12/2007 with term ending on 07/07/2010. Dr Ejaz Ali of JDU got elected unopposed. ^[8]

• Bye-elections were held on 26 June 2008 for vacancy from Nagaland due to resignation of seating member T. R. Zeliang of NPF on 24/03/2008 with term ending on 02/04/2010, from West Bengal due to resignation of seating member Barun Mukherjee of AIFB on 06/05/2008 with term ending on 02/04/2012, and from Bihar due to disqualification of seating member Jai Narain Prasad Nishad of BJP on 26/03/2008 with term ending on 19/07/2010.H. Khekiho Zhimomi of NPF for Nagaland, Rajiv Pratap Rudy of BJP & R.C.Singh of CPI for West Bengal became members.

• Bye-election was held on 21 November 2008 for vacancy from West Bengal due to resignation of seating member Debabrata Biswas of AIFB on 23/09/2010 with term ending on 02/04/2014. Barun Mukherji of AIFB became the member

• Bye-election was held on 22 January 2009 for vacancy from Madhya Pradesh due to death of seating member Laxminarayan Sharma of BJP on 17/10/2008 with term ending on 29/06/2010. Narendra Singh Tomar of BJP became the member.

References

1. "Biennial Elections to the Council of States (Rajya Sabha)-2014" (PDF). Election Commission of India, New Delhi. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 February 2014. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
2. "Biennial Elections to the Council of States (Rajya Sabha)and Legislative Council-2014" (PDF). Election Commission of India, New Delhi. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 July 2014. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
3. "Biennial Elections to the Council of States (Rajya Sabha) from Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand -2014" (PDF). Election Commission of India, New Delhi. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 April 2015. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
4. "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 1 September 2017.
5. "Biennial Elections and Bye-Elections to the Council of States and State Legislative Councils by (MLAs)" (PDF). ECI New Delhi. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 May 2016. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
6. "Biennial Elections and Bye-Election to the Council of States" (PDF). ECI New Delhi. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 May 2016. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
7. "Biennial Election & Bye-Election to the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council by Members of Legislative Assembly and bye-election to the Council of States from Madhya Pradesh" (PDF). ECI New Delhi. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 May 2016. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
8. "Ejaz Ali makes it to Rajya Sabha, unopposed" . Retrieved 2 November 2017.