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The 2025 Rajya Sabha elections will be held as part of a routine six-year cycle among certain of the State Legislatures in India on July and August 2025 to elect 8 of its 245 members, of which the states through their legislators elect 233, and the remaining 4 are appointed by the President [1]
| # | Previous MP | Term End | Elected MP | Term Start | Reference | ||||
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| 1 | Kamakhya Prasad Tasa | BJP | 14-Jun-2025 | 15-Jun-2025 | [2] | ||||
| 2 | Birendra Prasad Baishya | AGP | 14-Jun-2025 | 15-Jun-2025 | |||||
| # | Previous MP | Previous Party | Elected MP | Party After | Reference | ||
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| 1 | N. Chandrasekaran | AIADMK | TBD | [3] | |||
| 2 | Anbumani Ramadoss | PMK | TBD | ||||
| 3 | M. M. Abdulla | DMK | TBD | ||||
| 4 | M. Shanmugam | TBD | |||||
| 5 | P. Wilson | TBD | |||||
| 6 | Vaiko | MDMK | |||||
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