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2000 Rajya Sabha elections

2025-03-27T13:52:48Z

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{{Short description|Elections for the Upper House of Indian Parliament}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2018}}
{{Use Indian English|date=June 2018}}
{{Infobox election
|election_name = 2000 Rajya Sabha elections
|country = India
|type = parliamentary
|previous_election = 1999 Rajya Sabha elections
|previous_year = 1999
|election_date =
|next_election = 2001 Rajya Sabha elections
|next_year = 2001
|seats_for_election = (of 228 seats) to the [[Rajya Sabha]]
|image1 = {{CSS image crop|Image=Jaswant Singh (cropped).jpg|bSize=110|cWidth=100|cHeight=120|oLeft=10|oTop=04}}
|image2 = {{CSS image crop|Image=IBSA-leaders Manmohan Singh.jpg|bSize=110|cWidth=100|cHeight=120|oLeft=10|oTop=04}}
|leader1 = [[Jaswant Singh]]
|party1 = [[BJP]]
|leader2 = [[Manmohan Singh]]
|party2 = [[Indian National Congress|INC]]
}}'''Rajya Sabha elections''' were held in 2000, to elect members of the [[Rajya Sabha]], [[Indian Parliament]]'s [[upper chamber]]. The elections were held to elect respectively 3 seats from Delhi and 1 seat from Sikkim,<ref name=dl-sk>{{cite web |title= Biennial Elections to the Council of States (Rajya Sabha) from National Capital Territory of Delhi and Sikkim – 2005-06 |url= http://eci.nic.in/eci_main1/current/PN_14122005.pdf |publisher= ECI, New Delhi |accessdate= 3 October 2017}}</ref> 58 members from 15 states <ref name=mar>{{cite web |title= Biennial Elections to the Council of States (Rajya Sabha) and State Legislative Councils of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh by (MLAs)-2006 |url= http://eci.nic.in/eci_main1/current/PN_02032006.pdf |publisher= ECI New Delhi |accessdate= 27 September 2017}}</ref> and 3 members from Kerala<ref name="kl">{{cite web|title= Biennial Election to the Council of States from Kerala |url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main1/current/PN_02062006.pdf |publisher= Election Commission of India, New Delhi|accessdate=18 August 2017}}</ref> for the Council of States, the Rajya Sabha.<ref name="alist">{{cite web|title=Alphabetical List Of Former Members Of Rajya Sabha Since 1952|url=http://164.100.47.5/Newmembers/alphabeticallist_all_terms.aspx|publisher=Rajya Sabha Secretariat, New Delhi|accessdate=13 September 2017}}</ref>

==Elections==
Elections were held in 2000 to elect members from various states.
''The list is incomplete.''

===Members elected===
The following members are elected in the elections held in 2000. They are members for the term 2000-2006 and retire in year 2006, except in case of the resignation or death before the term.

State - Member - Party
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Rajya Sabha members for term 2000-2006
! State !! Member Name !! Party !! Remark
|-

|-
| Delhi<ref name=dl-sk/> || [[Karan Singh]] || INC
|-
| Delhi || [[Janardan Dwivedi]] || INC
|-
| Delhi || [[P. M. Sayeed]] || INC
|-

|-
| Sikkim<ref name=dl-sk/> || [[Palden Tsering Gyamtso|P.T. Gyamtso]] || SDF
|-

|-
| AP<ref name=mar/> || [[Alladi P Rajkumar]] || INC || R
|-
| AP || [[Venga Geetha]] || TDP
|-
| AP || [[Dasari Narayana Rao]] || INC
|-
| AP || [[Raashid Alvi]] || INC
|-
| AP || [[K. Rama Mohana Rao]] || TDP
|-
| AP || [[Ramamuni Reddy Sirigi Reddy]] || TDP

|-
| BH<ref name=mar/> || [[Kumkum Rai]] || JDU ||
|-
| BH || [[Mahendra Prasad]] || JDU
|-
| BH || [[Ravi Shankar Prasad]] || BJP
|-
| BH || [[Faguni Ram]] || INC
|-
| BH || [[Vidya Sagar Nishad]] || RJD
|-
| BH || [[Vijay Singh Yadav]] || RJD
|-

|-
| CG<ref name=mar/> || Kamla Manhar || INC ||
|-

|-
| GJ<ref name=mar/> || [[Arun Jaitley]] || BJP ||
|-
| GJ || Dr [[A K Patel]] || INC
|-
| GJ || [[Rajubhai A Parmar]] || INC
|-
| GJ || [[Lekhraj H Bachani]] || INC
|-

|-
| HR<ref name="mar"/> || [[Ramji Lal]] || INLD ||
|-

|-
| HP<ref name="mar"/> || [[Sunil Barongpa]] || INC ||
|-

|-
| JH<ref name="mar"/> || [[S. S. Ahluwalia]] || BJP ||
|-
| JH|| [[RK Anand]] || INC
|-

|-
| KA<ref name="mar"/> || [[Bimba Raikar]] || INC ||
|-
| KA|| [[K. Rahman Khan]] || INC
|-
| KA|| [[M. Rajasekara Murthy]] || INC || Res 10-11-2005
|-
| KA|| [[K.B. Krishna Murthy]] || INC
|-

|-
| MP<ref name="mar"/> || [[H. R. Bhardwaj]] || INC ||
|-
| MP || [[Arjun Singh (politician, born 1930)|Arjun Singh]] || INC
|-
| MP || [[P K Maheshwari]] || INC
|-
| MP || [[Narayan Singh Kesari]] || BJP
|-
| MP || [[Vikram Verma]] || BJP
|-

|-
| MH<ref name="mar"/> || [[Balavant Apte]] || BJP ||
|-
| MH || [[R. S. Gavai]] || RPI
|-
| MH || [[Dilip Kumar|Yusuf Sanwar Khan]] || INC
|-
| MH || [[Rajeev Shukla]] || INC
|-
| MH || [[Praful Patel]] || NCP
|-
| MH || [[Vasant Chavan]] || NCP
|-
| MH || [[Ram Jethmalani]] || OTH
|-

|-
| UP <ref name="mar"/> || [[Kalraj Mishra]] || BJP ||
|-
| UP || [[Ram Nath Kovind]] || BJP
|-
| UP || [[Balbir Punj]] || BJP
|-
| UP || [[R. B. S. Varma]] || BJP
|-
| UP || [[Ghanshyam Chandra Kharwar]] || BSP
|-
| UP || [[Sakshi Maharaj]] || BJP
|-
| UP || [[Janeshwar Mishra]] || SP
|-
| UP || [[Dara Singh Chauhan]] || BSP
|-
| UP || [[Rajeev Shukla]] || INC
|-
| UP || Prof [[M. M. Agarwal]] || IND
|-
| UP<ref name=mar/> || [[Sushma Swaraj]] || BJP || fr UP till 08/11/2000
|-
| WB<ref name="mar"/> || [[Nilotpal Basu]] || CPM ||
|-
| WB || [[Dipankar Mukherjee]] || CPM ||
|-
| WB || [[Manoj Bhattacharya]] || RSP ||
|-
| WB || [[Jayanta Bhattacharya]] || INC ||
|-
| WB || [[Biplab Dasgupta]] || CPM || Dea 17-07-2005
|-

|-
| OR<ref name="mar"/> || [[Rudra Narayan Pany]] || BJP ||
|-
| OR || [[Birabhadra Singh]] || -- ||
|-
| OR || [[Baijayant Panda]] || BJD ||
|-

|-
| RJ <ref name="mar"/> || [[Ramdas Agarwal]] || BJP ||
|-
| RJ || [[Jamna Devi]] || INC
|-
| RJ || [[Mool Chand]] || INC
|-

|-
| Kerala<ref name=kl/> || [[P.J. Kurien]] || INC ||
|-
| Kerala || [[N.K. Premachandran]] || RSP||
|-
| Kerala || [[M. P. Abdussamad Samadani]] || ML ||
|-

|-
|}

==Bye-elections==
The following bye elections were held in the year 2000.

State - Member - Party

* Bye-elections were held on 20/01/2000 for vacancy from Karnataka and Jammu Kashmir due to resignations of seating members [[S M Krishna]] on 14.10.1999 with term ending on 09.04.2002 and Dr [[Karan Singh]] on 12.08.1999 with term ending on 29 November 2002.<ref name=bye-jan>{{cite web|title= Elections to Rajya Sabha |url= http://eci.nic.in/eci_main1/current/PN271299.pdf |publisher= ECI New Delhi |accessdate= 27 September 2017}}</ref> From Karnataka [[K. C. Kondaiah]] of INC became member.
* Bye-elections were held on 20/01/2000 for vacancy from Tamil Nadu due to resignations of seating members [[R.K. Kumar]] on 03.10.1999 with term ending on 02.04.2002 and [[T.M. Venkatachalam]] on 02.12.1999 with term ending on 02.04.2002.<ref name=bye-jan/>
* Bye-elections were held on 29/03/2000 for vacancy from Jammu Kashmir and Bihar due to resignation of seating member Dr [[Karan Singh]] on 12.08.1999 with term ending on 29 November 2002 and death of seating member [[Jagdambi Mandal]] on 13 January 2000 with term ending on 09.04.2002. <ref>{{cite web |title= Biennial elections to the Council of States (Rajya Sabha) to fill the seats of members retiring on 02.04.2000 |url= http://eci.nic.in/eci_main1/current/PN28022000.pdf |publisher= ECI, New Delhi |accessdate= 10 October 2017}}</ref>
* Bye-elections were held on 21/09/2000 for vacancy from Sikkim due to death of seating member [[K G Bhutia]] on 12.8.2000 with term ending on 23 February 2006. <ref>{{cite web |title= Bye-election to the Council of States (Rajya Sabha) from the State of Sikkim |url= http://eci.nic.in/eci_main1/current/PN28082000(1).pdf |publisher= ECI, New Delhi |accessdate= 3 October 2017}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Rajya Sabha}}

[[Category:2000 elections in India]]
[[Category:Rajya Sabha elections in India|2000]]

2005 Rajya Sabha elections

2025-03-27T13:50:40Z

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{{Short description|Elections for the Upper House of Indian Parliament}}
{{Infobox election
|election_name = 2005 Rajya Sabha elections
|country = India
|type = parliamentary
|previous_election = 2004 Rajya Sabha elections
|previous_year = 2004
|election_date =
|next_election = 2006 Rajya Sabha elections
|next_year = 2006
|seats_for_election = (of 228 seats) to the [[Rajya Sabha]]
|image2 = {{CSS image crop|Image=Jaswant Singh (cropped).jpg|bSize=110|cWidth=100|cHeight=120|oLeft=10|oTop=04}}
|image1 = {{CSS image crop|Image=IBSA-leaders Manmohan Singh.jpg|bSize=110|cWidth=100|cHeight=120|oLeft=10|oTop=04}}
|leader2 = [[Jaswant Singh]]
|party2 = [[BJP]]
|leader1 = [[Manmohan Singh]]
|party1 = [[Indian National Congress|INC]]
}}'''Rajya Sabha elections''' were held on various dates in 2005, to elect members of the [[Rajya Sabha]], [[Indian Parliament]]'s [[upper chamber]]. One member from Goa, three members from Gujarat and 6 members from West Bengal<ref name="retire-2007-12">{{cite web|title=RAJYA SABHA – RETIREMENTS – ABSTRACT As on 1 November, 2006|url= http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/miscellaneous_statistics/rajya_sabha_council.pdf |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20101009123012/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/miscellaneous_statistics/rajya_sabha_council.pdf |url-status= dead |archive-date= 9 October 2010 |website= eci.nic.in|accessdate=6 October 2017}}</ref> were elected.<ref name="alist">{{cite web|title=Alphabetical List Of Former Members Of Rajya Sabha Since 1952|url=http://164.100.47.5/Newmembers/alphabeticallist_all_terms.aspx|publisher=Rajya Sabha Secretariat, New Delhi|accessdate=13 September 2017}}</ref>

==Elections==
Elections were held to elect members from various states.
===Members elected===
The following members are elected in the elections held in 2005. They are members for the term 2005-2011 and retire in year 2011, except in case of the resignation or death before the term.

===[[List of Rajya Sabha members from Goa|Goa]]===
{| class="wikitable"
! Seat No
! Previous MP
! colspan=2| Previous Party
! Elected MP
! colspan=2| Elected Party
! Reference

|- style="text-align:center;"
| 1.
| [[Eduardo Faleiro]]
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress}}" rowspan=1|
| [[Indian National Congress|INC]]
| [[Shantaram Naik]]
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress}}" rowspan=1|
| [[Indian National Congress|INC]]
|
|}

===[[List of Rajya Sabha members from Gujarat|Gujarat]]===
{| class="wikitable"
! Seat No
! Previous MP
! colspan=2| Previous Party
! Elected MP
! colspan=2| Elected Party
! Reference

|- style="text-align:center;"
| 1.
| [[Ahmed Patel]]
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress}}" rowspan=1|
| [[Indian National Congress|INC]]
| [[Ahmed Patel]]
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress}}" rowspan=1|
| [[Indian National Congress|INC]]
|
|-
|- style="text-align:center;"
| 2.
| [[Lalitbhai Mehta]]
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" rowspan=2|
| rowspan=2| [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]
| [[Suryakantbhai Acharya]]
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" rowspan=2|
| rowspan=2| [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]
|
|-
|- style="text-align:center;"
| 3.
| [[Savita Sharda|Savitaben V Sharda]]
| [[Surendra Motilal Patel]]
|
|}

===[[List of Rajya Sabha members from West Bengal|West Bengal]]===
{| class="wikitable"
! Seat No
! Previous MP
! colspan=2| Previous Party
! Elected MP
! colspan=2| Elected Party
! Reference

|- style="text-align:center;"
| 1.
| [[Abani Roy]]
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{party color|Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)}}" |
|[[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|RSP]]
| [[Abani Roy]]
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{party color|Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)}}" |
|[[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|RSP]]
|
|- style="text-align:center;"
| 2.
|[[Chandrakala Pandey]]
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{party color|Communist Party of India (Marxist)}}" rowspan=4|
| rowspan=4|[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]]
| [[Sitaram Yechury]]
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{party color|Communist Party of India (Marxist)}}" rowspan=3|
| rowspan=3|[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]]
|
|- style="text-align:center;"
| 3.
| [[Chittabrata Majumdar]]
| [[Chittabrata Majumdar]]
|
|- style="text-align:center;"
| 4.
| [[Jibon Bihari Roy]]
| [[Brinda Karat]]
|
|- style="text-align:center;"
| 5.
| [[Sarla Maheshwari]]
| [[Swapan Sadhan Bose]]
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{party color|All India Trinamool Congress}}" |
| [[All India Trinamool Congress|AITC]]
|
|- style="text-align:center;"
| 6.
| [[Shankar Roy Chowdhury]]
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{party color|Independent}}" |
| [[Independent politician|IND]]
| [[Arjun Kumar Sengupta]]
|width="1px" bgcolor="{{party color|Independent}}" |
| [[Independent politician|IND]]
|
|}

==Bye-elections==
The following bye elections were held in the year 2005.

State - Member - Party

* Bye-elections were held on 30/04/2005 for vacancy from Maharashtra due to resignation of seating member [[Sanjay Nirupam|Nirupam]] on 18/03/2005 with term ending on 02/04/2006 <ref>{{cite web |title=Bye-election to the Council of States from Maharashtra to fill up the vacancy occurring due to the resignation of sitting member Shri Nirupam Sanjay Brijkishorlal |url= http://eci.nic.in/eci_main1/current/PN_06092007.pdf |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160517195848/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main1/current/PN_06092007.pdf |url-status= dead |archive-date= 17 May 2016 |publisher= ECI, New Delhi |accessdate= 3 October 2017}}</ref>

* Bye-elections were held on 03/06/2005 for vacancy from Jharkhand and Kerala due to elections to JH Assembly of seating member [[Stephen Marandi]] on 16 March, 2005 with term ending on 07/07/2010 and resignation of seating member [[K. Karunakaran ]] on 19/01/2007 with term ending on 02/04/2010 <ref>{{cite web |title=Bye-elections to the Council of States from Jharkhand and Kerala to fill up the vacancy occurring due to the election of sitting member Shri Stephan Marandi in Jharkhand Legislative Assembly and resignation of Shri K. Karunakaran |url= http://eci.nic.in/eci_main1/current/PN_10052005.pdf |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160515160253/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main1/current/PN_10052005.pdf |url-status= dead |archive-date= 15 May 2016 |publisher= ECI, New Delhi |accessdate= 3 October 2017}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Rajya Sabha}}

[[Category:2005 elections in India]]
[[Category:Rajya Sabha elections in India|2005]]