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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 | Party | Term Start | Reference | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mission Ranjan Das | BJP | 14-Jun-2025 | TBD | BJP | 15-Jun-2025 | [2] | ||
| 2 | Birendra Prasad Baishya | AGP | 14-Jun-2025 | TBD | AGP | 15-Jun-2025 | |||
| # | Name [3] | Party | Term Start [4] | Term End [4] | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Farooq Abdullah | JKNC | Jan-2025 | Jan-2031 | |
| 2 | Jan-2025 | Jan-2031 | |||
| 3 | Jan-2025 | Jan-2031 | |||
| 4 | BJP | Jan-2025 | Jan-2031 | ||
| # | Previous MP | Previous Party | Term End | Elected MP | Party | Term Start | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | N. Chandrasegharan | AIADMK | 24 July 2025 | TBD | AIADMK | 25 July 2025 | ||
| 2 | Anbumani Ramadoss | PMK | 24 July 2025 | Premalatha Vijayakant | DMDK | 25 July 2025 | ||
| 3 | M. M. Abdulla | DMK | 24 July 2025 | TBD | DMK | 25 July 2025 | ||
| 4 | M. Shanmugam | 24 July 2025 | TBD | 25 July 2025 | ||||
| 5 | P. Wilson | 24 July 2025 | TBD | 25 July 2025 | ||||
| 6 | Vaiko | MDMK | 24 July 2025 | Kamal Haasan | MNM | 25 July 2025 | ||
| # | Previous MP | Party | Vacancy date | Elected MP | Party | Term start | Term end | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | V. Vijayasai Reddy | YSRCP | 25-Jan-2025 | TBD | 21-Jun-2028 | ||||
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