Ahmedbhai Muhamedbhai Patel,also known as Ahmed Patel,was an Indian politician and Member of Parliament from the Indian National Congress. He was the political secretary to Congress President Sonia Gandhi.
Jagat Prakash "J. P." Nadda is an Indian lawyer and politician who is serving as the 34th Minister of Health,25th Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers since 2024 and 11th President of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) since 2020 and the member of the Rajya Sabha representing Gujarat since 2024. A key decision maker of the BJP,he is a close aide to Narendra Modi. He was the BJP's working president from 2019 to 2020. Nadda was also the Minister of Health and Family Welfare in the first Modi ministry from 2014 to 2019 and Parliamentary Board Secretary of Bharatiya Janata Party. Nadda is the Minister of Health and Family Welfare and Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers in the third Modi ministry.
K. T. S. Tulsi is an Indian politician and a senior advocate in the Supreme Court of India. He was elected to the Rajya Sabha the upper house of Indian Parliament from Chhattisgarh as a member of the Indian National Congress earlier he had been nominated to the Rajya Sabha. He has represented many notable people in various cases.
Raghav Chadha is an Indian politician and a member of the Aam Aadmi Party. He is the youngest Rajya Sabha MP from the Punjab constituency. He was the former Vice Chairman of the Delhi Jal Board and MLA from the Rajendra Nagar assembly constituency in the 7th Delhi Assembly till 2022. Chadha has been elected as Member of Parliament,Rajya Sabha. He is also a practising chartered accountant.
The 2016 Rajya Sabha elections were held as part of a routine six-year cycle among certain of the State Legislatures in India on March 14 and June 11,2016,to elect 13 and 57 of its 245 members,of which the states through their legislators elect 233,and the remaining 12 are appointed by the President. Being even-numbered,2016 was a year in which about 30% of the State Legislature-elected 233-seat component of the body is elected.
Elections were held in India on 21 July and 8 August 2017 as nomination contests by state legislators routinely for ten members of the Rajya Sabha across three states,replacing those who retired in July and August 2017. The State Legislatures which contribute in this six-year minor elections/nomination cycle are Goa,Gujarat and West Bengal. The mechanism is the single transferable vote (STV) among legislators,meaning nominations may be unopposed contests. The open ballot is used rather than secret ballot,allowing public scrutiny.
Rajya Sabha elections were held in 2018 to elect the 65 retiring members of the Rajya Sabha,Indian Parliament's upper chamber. There were,as routine,three such elections held among relevant State and Union Territory legislators by single transferable vote (STV) and Open Ballot:on 16 January to elect 3 members from Delhi and 1 member from Sikkim;on 23 March to elect 58 members from 16 States;and lastly on 21 June to elect 3 members from Kerala. Being even-numbered,2018 was a year in which about 30% of the State Legislature-elected 233-seat component of the body is elected. The other 12 seats of the body are appointed by the President.
Narain Dass Gupta is Member of Parliament Rajya Sabha from NCT of Delhi,practicing chartered accountant,and former president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI). He is a financial policy expert who has written several books on taxation.
2019 Rajya Sabha elections were held throughout 2019,to fill the vacancies in the Rajya Sabha,the Indian Parliament's upper chamber. The elections were held to elect 2 members from Assam as well as 6 members from Tamil Nadu. By-elections were held for 14 seats among various states.
Ashwini Vaishnaw is an Indian politician,former IAS officer and a businessman who is serving as the 39th Minister of Railways,the 35th Minister of Information and Broadcasting and the 2nd Minister of Electronics and Information Technology since 2024.
2020 Rajya Sabha elections were the set of indirect elections by the members of State legislatures of India,to elect new members to fill vacancies in the Rajya Sabha –the upper house of the Parliament of India. The elections are held annually and throughout the year on an ad hoc basis. The elections in 2020 are for a total of 73 seats of which 55 of them were to be elected by March 26. The remaining were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Election Commission of India later announced all the elections for the remaining 24 Rajya Sabha seats were to be held on 19 June 2020.
Rajya Sabha elections were held throughout 2021,to elect new members to fill vacancies in the Rajya Sabha,the Indian Parliament's upper chamber. Members sit for staggered terms lasting six years,with elections every year but almost a third of the 233 designates up for election every two years.
Rajya Sabha elections were held throughout 2022,to elect the retiring members of the Rajya Sabha,the Indian Parliament's upper house.
The 2023 Rajya Sabha elections were held as part of a routine six-year cycle among certain of the State Legislatures in India on July and August 2023 to elect 10 of its 245 members,of which the states through their legislators elect 233,and the remaining 12 are appointed by the President.
Sandeep Kumar Pathak is an Indian politician from Aam Aadmi Party and Rajya Sabha MP from Punjab since April 2022. He is a former assistant professor of IIT Delhi,former research associate at University of Oxford and MIT. He is also currently Aam Aadmi Party's Incharge in Gujarat &Co-incharge in Punjab and Himachal Pradesh
Mayank Nayak,also known as Mayankbhai Nayak is an Indian politician from Gujarat who is serving as member of Rajya Sabha from Gujarat,representing Bharatiya Janata Party,since 2024.
