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{{Short description|Elections for the Upper House of Indian Parliament}}
{{Infobox election
| country = India
| type = parliamentary
| ongoing = no
| previous_election = 2027 Rajya Sabha elections
| previous_year = 2027
| next_election = 2029 Rajya Sabha elections
| next_year = 2029
| election_date = 2028
| seats_for_election = 70 of the 233{{efn|excluding 12 [[List of nominated members of the Rajya Sabha|nominated seats]]}} elected seats in the [[Rajya Sabha]]
| majority_seats = 123{{efn|out of 245 (including 12 [[List of nominated members of the Rajya Sabha|nominated seats]])}} total

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| leader1 = [[J. P. Nadda]]
| party1 = Bharatiya Janata Party
| leader_since1 = 24 June 2024
| leaders_seat1 =
| alliance1 = [[National Democratic Alliance|NDA]]
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| leader2 = [[Mallikarjun Kharge]]
| party2 = Indian National Congress
| leader_since2 = 16 February 2021
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| alliance2 = [[Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance|INDIA]]
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The 2028 '''Rajya Sabha elections''' will be held as part of a routine six-year cycle of the upper house of the [[Parliament of India]] to elect 72 of its 245 members, of which the states through their legislators elect 233, and the remaining 12 are appointed by the President.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://rajyasabha.nic.in/rsnew/member_site/RetLMemState.aspx|title=Statewise Retirement|website=rajyasabha.nic.in}}</ref>
==Members Retiring==
=== [[List of Rajya Sabha members from Assam|Assam]] ===

{| class="wikitable"
!#
!Previous MP
! colspan="2" |Party
! colspan="2" |Alliance
!Term end
!Elected MP
! colspan="2" |Party
! colspan="2" |Alliance
|-
|1
|[[Pabitra Margherita]]
|{{party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}
|{{party name with color|National Democratic Alliance}}
|rowspan="2"|02-Apr-2028
|
|colspan="2"|
|{{party name with color|National Democratic Alliance|rowspan=2}}
|-
|2
|[[Rwngwra Narzary]]
|{{party name with color|United People's Party Liberal}}
|{{party name with color|None|no_link=1}}
|
|colspan="2"|
|}

===[[List of Rajya Sabha members from Himachal Pradesh|Himachal Pradesh]]===
{| class="wikitable"
!#
!Previous MP
! colspan="2" |Party
!Term end
! Elected MP
! colspan="2" |Party
|-
| 1
|[[Sikander Kumar]]
|style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]
| 02-Apr-2028
| Colspan=3 align=middle|'''TBD'''
|}
===[[List of Rajya Sabha members from Kerala|Kerala]]===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!#
!Previous MP
! colspan="2" |Party
! colspan="2" |Alliance
!Term end
!Elected MP
! Colspan="2" |Party
! colspan="2" |Alliance
|-
|1
|[[Jebi Mather]]
|{{party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|{{party color cell|United Democratic Front (Kerala)}}
|[[United Democratic Front (Kerala)|UDF]] ([[Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance|INDIA]])
|rowspan="3"|02-Apr-2028
|
|colspan="2"|
|{{party color cell|United Democratic Front (Kerala)|rowspan=2}}
|rowspan="2"|[[United Democratic Front (Kerala)|UDF]] ([[Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance|INDIA]])
|-
|2
|[[A. A. Rahim (politician, born 1980)|A. A. Rahim]]
|{{party name with color|Communist Party of India (Marxist)}}
|{{party color cell|Communist Party of India|rowspan=2}}
|rowspan="2"|[[Left Democratic Front|LDF]] ([[Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance|INDIA]])
|
|colspan="2"|
|-
|3
|[[P. Santhosh Kumar]]
|{{party name with color|Communist Party of India}}
|
|colspan="2"|
|colspan=2|{{efn|1=Quota = 140 ÷ (3+1) + 1 = 36 votes. UDF with 102 MLAs could win 2 seats; remaining votes are UDF 30, LDF 35 and Others 3. Since none reach 36, the result of the 3rd seat depends on the stand of the 3 Other MLAs (BJP-3).}}
|}

===[[List of Rajya Sabha members from Nagaland|Nagaland]]===
{| class="wikitable"
!#
!Previous MP
! colspan="2" |Party
!Term end
!Elected MP
! colspan="2" |Party
|-
| 1
| [[Phangnon Konyak]]
|style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]
| 02-Apr-2028
| Colspan=3 align=middle|'''TBD'''
|}

===[[List of Rajya Sabha members from Tripura|Tripura]]===
{| class="wikitable"
!#
!Previous MP
! colspan="2" |Party
!Term end
!Elected MP
! colspan="2" |Party
|-
| 1
|[[Rajib Bhattacharjee]]
|style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]
| 02-Apr-2028
| Colspan=3 align=middle|'''TBD'''
|}

===[[List of Rajya Sabha members from Punjab|Punjab]]===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!#
!Previous MP
! colspan="2" |Party
!Term end
!Elected MP
!Party
|-
|1
|[[Harbhajan Singh]]{{efn|name=Traitors Of Punjab|Defected from [[Aam Aadmi Party|AAP]] to [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]] in April 2026.<ref name=Horse-trading>{{cite web|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/raghav-chadha-aap-mps-join-bjp/article70901275.ece|title=Raghav Chadha, six AAP MPs join BJP|access-date=2026-04-24|website=The Hindu}}</ref>}}
|{{party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party|rowspan=6}}<ref name=Horse-trading/>
|rowspan="5"|09-Apr-2028
|colspan="2" rowspan="7" align=middle |'''TBD'''
|-
|2
|[[Raghav Chadha]]{{efn|name=Traitors Of Punjab}}
|-
|3
|[[Sandeep Pathak]]{{efn|name=Traitors Of Punjab}}
|-
|4
|[[Ashok Mittal]]{{efn|name=Traitors Of Punjab}}
|-
|5
|[[Rajinder Gupta]]{{efn|name=Traitors Of Punjab}}
|-
|6
|[[Vikramjit Singh Sahney]]{{efn|name=Traitors Of Punjab}}
|rowspan="2"|04-Jul-2028
|-
|7
|[[Balbir Singh Seechewal]]
|{{party name with color|Aam Aadmi Party}}
|-
|}

===[[List of Rajya Sabha members from Andhra Pradesh|Andhra Pradesh]]===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!#
!Previous MP
! colspan="2" |Party
! colspan="2" |Alliance
!Term end
!Elected MP
! colspan="2" |Party
! colspan="2" |Alliance
|-
|1
|[[P. Venkata Satyanarayana]]
|{{party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party|rowspan=2}}
|{{party color cell|Telugu Desam Party|rowspan=3}}
|rowspan=3|[[Kutami]] ([[National Democratic Alliance|NDA]])
|rowspan="4"|21-Jun-2028
|
|colspan="2"|
|{{party color cell|Telugu Desam Party|rowspan=4}}
|rowspan=4|[[Kutami]] ([[National Democratic Alliance|NDA]])
|-
|2
|[[R. Krishnaiah]]
|
|colspan="2"|
|-
|3
|[[Beeda Masthan Rao]]
|{{party name with color|Telugu Desam Party}}
|
|colspan="2"|
|-
|4
|[[S. Niranjan Reddy]]
|{{party name with color|YSR Congress Party}}
|{{party name with color|None|no_link=1}}
|
|colspan="2"|
|}

===[[List of Rajya Sabha members from Telangana|Telangana]]===
{| class="wikitable"
!#
!Previous MP
! colspan="2" |Party
!Term end
!Elected MP
! colspan="2" |Party
|-
|1
|[[B. Parthasaradhi Reddy]]
|{{party name with color|Bharat Rashtra Samithi|rowspan=2}}
|rowspan="2"|21-Jun-2028
|
|{{party name with color|Indian National Congress|rowspan=2}}
|-
|2
|[[D. Damodar Rao]]
|
|}

===[[List of Rajya Sabha members from Chhattisgarh|Chhattisgarh]]===
{| class="wikitable"
!#
!Previous MP
! colspan="2" |Party
!Term end
!Elected MP
! colspan="2" |Party
|-
|1
|[[Rajeev Shukla]]
|{{party name with color|Indian National Congress|rowspan=2}}
|rowspan="2"|28-Jun-2028
|
|{{party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}
|-
|2
|[[Ranjeet Ranjan]]
|
|{{party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|}

===[[List of Rajya Sabha members from Madhya Pradesh|Madhya Pradesh]]===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!#
!Previous MP
! colspan="2" |Party
!Term end
!Elected MP
! colspan="2" |Party
|-
|1
|[[Kavita Patidar]]
|{{party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party|rowspan=2}}
|rowspan="3"|29-Jun-2028
|
|{{party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party|rowspan=2}}
|-
|2
|[[Sumitra Valmiki]]
|
|-
|3
|[[Vivek Tankha]]
|{{party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|
|{{party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|}

===[[List of Rajya Sabha members from Tamil Nadu|Tamil Nadu]]===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!#
!Previous MP
! colspan="2" |Party
! Colspan="2" |Alliance
!Term end
!Elected MP
! colspan="2" |Party
! colspan="2" |Alliance
|-
|1
|[[R. Girirajan]]
|{{party name with color|Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam|rowspan=3}}
|{{party color cell|Secular Progressive Alliance|rowspan=3}}
|rowspan="3"|[[Secular Progressive Alliance|SPA]] ([[Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance|INDIA]])
|rowspan="6"|29-Jun-2028
|
|colspan="2"|
|{{party color cell|Secular Progressive Alliance|rowspan=2}}
|rowspan="2"|[[Secular Progressive Alliance|SPA]] ([[Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance|INDIA]])
|-
|2
|[[S. Kalyanasundaram]]
|
|colspan="2"|
|-
|3
|[[K. R. N. Rajeshkumar]]
|
|colspan="2"|
|{{party color cell|Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam|rowspan=3}}
|rowspan="3"|[[TVK-led Alliance|TVK+]] ([[Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance|INDIA]])
|-
|4
|[[P. Chidambaram]]
|{{party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|{{party color cell|Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam}}
|[[TVK-led Alliance|TVK+]] ([[Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance|INDIA]])
|
|colspan="2"|
|-
|5
|[[C. V. Shanmugam]]
|{{party name with color|All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam|rowspan=2}}
|{{party color cell|AIADMK-led Alliance|rowspan=2}}
|rowspan="2"|[[AIADMK-led Alliance|AIADMK+]] ([[National Democratic Alliance|NDA]])
|
|colspan="2"|
|-
|6
|[[R. Dharmar]]
|
|colspan="2"|
|{{party color cell|AIADMK-led Alliance}}
|[[AIADMK-led Alliance|AIADMK+]] ([[National Democratic Alliance|NDA]])
|}

===[[List of Rajya Sabha members from Karnataka|Karnataka]]===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!#
!Previous MP
! colspan="2" |Party
!Term end
!Elected MP
!Party
|-
|1
|[[Nirmala Sitharaman]]
|{{party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party|rowspan=3}}
|rowspan="4"|30-Jun-2028
|colspan="2" rowspan="4" align=middle|'''TBD'''
|-
|2
|[[Jaggesh]]
|-
|3
|[[Lehar Singh Siroya]]
|-
|4
|[[Jairam Ramesh]]
|{{party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|}

===[[List of Rajya Sabha members from Odisha|Odisha]]===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!#
!Previous MP
! colspan="2" |Party
!Term end
!Elected MP
! colspan="2" |Party
|-
|1
|[[Sasmit Patra]]
|{{party name with color|Biju Janata Dal|rowspan=3}}
|rowspan="3"|01-Jul-2028
|
|{{party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party|rowspan=2}}
|-
|2
|[[Manas Ranjan Mangaraj]]
|
|-
|3
|[[Sulata Deo]]
|
|{{party name with color|Biju Janata Dal}}
|}

===[[List of Rajya Sabha members from Maharashtra|Maharashtra]]===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!#
!Previous MP
! colspan="2" |Party
! colspan="2" |Alliance
!Term end
!Elected MP
! colspan="2" |Party
! colspan="2" |Alliance
|-
|1
|[[Anil Bonde]]
|{{party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party|rowspan=2}}
|{{party color cell|Bharatiya Janata Party|rowspan=3}}
|rowspan="3"|[[Maha Yuti|MY]] ([[National Democratic Alliance|NDA]])
|rowspan="3"|04-Jul-2028
|
|colspan="2"|
|{{party color cell|Bharatiya Janata Party|rowspan=5}}
|rowspan="5"|[[Maha Yuti|MY]] ([[National Democratic Alliance|NDA]])
|-
|2
|[[Dhananjay Mahadik]]
|
|colspan="2"|
|-
|3
|[[Nitin Patil]]
|{{party name with color|Nationalist Congress Party}}
|
|colspan="2"|
|-
|4
|colspan="6" align=middle|'''Vacant''' ([[Sunetra Pawar]])
|
|colspan="2"|
|-
|5
|[[Sanjay Raut]]
|{{party name with color|Shiv Sena (UBT)}}
|{{party color cell|Maha Vikas Aghadi|rowspan=2}}
|rowspan="2"|[[Maha Vikas Aghadi|MVA]] ([[Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance|INDIA]])
|rowspan="2"|04-Jul-2028
|
|colspan="2"|
|-
|6
|[[Imran Pratapgarhi]]
|{{party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|
|colspan="2"|
|{{party color cell|Maha Vikas Aghadi}}
|[[Maha Vikas Aghadi|MVA]] ([[Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance|INDIA]])
|}

===[[List of Rajya Sabha members from Rajasthan|Rajasthan]]===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!#
!Previous MP
! colspan="2" |Party
!Term end
!Elected MP
! colspan="2" |Party
|-
|1
|[[Randeep Surjewala]]
|{{party name with color|Indian National Congress|rowspan=3}}
|rowspan="4"|04-Jul-2028
|
|{{party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
|2
|[[Mukul Wasnik]]
|
|{{party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party|rowspan=3}}
|-
|3
|[[Pramod Tiwari]]
|
|-
|4
|[[Ghanshyam Tiwari (politician, born 1947)|Ghanshyam Tiwari]]
|{{party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}
|
|}

===[[List of Rajya Sabha members from Uttar Pradesh|Uttar Pradesh]]===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!#
!Previous MP
! colspan="2" |Party
!Term end
!Elected MP
!Party
|-
|1
|[[Surendra Singh Nagar]]
|{{party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party|rowspan=8}}
|rowspan="11"|04-Jul-2028
|colspan="2" rowspan="11" align=middle|'''TBD'''
|-
|2
|[[Laxmikant Bajpai]]
|-
|3
|[[Radha Mohan Das Agarwal]]
|-
|4
|[[Baburam Nishad]]
|-
|5
|[[Sangeeta Yadav]]
|-
|6
|[[Darshana Singh]]
|-
|7
|[[Mithlesh Kumar]]
|-
|8
|[[K. Laxman]]
|-
|9
|[[Jayant Chaudhary]]
|{{party name with color|Rashtriya Lok Dal}}
|-
|10
|[[Javed Ali Khan]]
|{{party name with color|Samajwadi Party}}
|-
|11
|[[Kapil Sibal]]
|{{party name with color|Independent politician|shortname=IND}}
|}

===[[List of Rajya Sabha members from Uttarakhand|Uttarakhand]] ===
{| class="wikitable"
!#
!Previous MP
! colspan="2" |Party
!Term end
!Elected MP
! colspan="2" |Party
|-
|1
|[[Kalpana Saini]]
|style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]
|04-Jul-2028
|colspan="3" align="middle"|'''TBD'''
|}

===[[List of Rajya Sabha members from Bihar|Bihar]]===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!#
!Previous MP
! colspan="2" |Party
! colspan="2" |Alliance
!Term end
!Elected MP
! colspan="2" |Party
! colspan="2" |Alliance
|-
|1
|[[Satish Chandra Dubey]]
|{{party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party|rowspan=3}}
|{{party color cell|National Democratic Alliance|rowspan=4}}
|rowspan="4"|[[National Democratic Alliance|NDA]]
|rowspan="5"|07-Jul-2028
|
|colspan="2"|
|{{party color cell|National Democratic Alliance|rowspan=4}}
|rowspan="4"|[[National Democratic Alliance|NDA]]
|-
|2
|[[Manan Kumar Mishra]]
|
|colspan="2"|
|-
|3
|[[Shambhu Sharan Patel]]
|
|colspan="2"|
|-
|4
|[[Khiru Mahto]]
|{{party name with color|Janata Dal (United)}}
|
|colspan="2"|
|-
|5
|[[Faiyaz Ahmad]]
|{{party name with color|Rashtriya Janata Dal}}
|{{party color cell|Mahagathbandhan (Bihar)}}
|[[Mahagathbandhan (Bihar)|MGB]] ([[Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance|INDIA]])
|
|colspan="2"|
|colspan=2|{{efn|1=Quota = 243 ÷ (5+1) + 1 = 41 votes. NDA with 202 MLAs could win 4 seats; remaining votes are NDA 38, MGB 35 and Others 6. Since none reach 41, the result of the 5th seat depends on the stand of the 6 Other MLAs (AIMIM-5, BSP-1).}}
|-
|}

===[[List of Rajya Sabha members from Jharkhand|Jharkhand]]===
{| class="wikitable"
!#
!Previous MP
! colspan="2" |Party
! colspan="2" |Alliance
!Term end
!Elected MP
! colspan="2" |Party
! colspan="2" |Alliance
|-
|1
|[[Aditya Sahu]]
|{{party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}
|{{party color cell|Bharatiya Janata Party}}
|[[National Democratic Alliance|NDA]]
|rowspan="2"|07-Jul-2028
|
|colspan="2"|
|{{party color cell|Mahagathbandhan (Jharkhand)|rowspan=2}}
|rowspan="2"|[[Mahagathbandhan (Jharkhand)|MGB]] ([[Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance|INDIA]])
|-
|2
|[[Mahua Maji]]
|{{party name with color|Jharkhand Mukti Morcha}}
|{{party color cell|Mahagathbandhan (Jharkhand)}}
|[[Mahagathbandhan (Jharkhand)|MGB]] ([[Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance|INDIA]])
|
|colspan="2"|
|}

===[[List of Rajya Sabha members from Haryana|Haryana]]===
{| class="wikitable"
!#
!Previous MP
! colspan="2" |Party
!Term end
!Elected MP
! colspan="2" |Party
|-
|1
|[[Rekha Sharma (Indian politician)|Rekha Sharma]]
|{{party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}
|rowspan="2"|01-Aug-2028
|
|{{party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}
|-
|2
|[[Kartikeya Sharma]]
|{{party name with color|Independent politician|shortname=IND}}
|
|{{party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|}

===[[List of nominated members of the Rajya Sabha|Nominated]] ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!No
!Previous MP
! colspan="2" |Party
!Term end
!Nominated MP
! colspan="2" |Party
!Date of appointment
|-
! 1
| [[Ilaiyaraaja]]
| rowspan=4 bgcolor="000000"|
|rowspan="4"|[[List of nominated members of Rajya Sabha|Nominated]]
|rowspan="4"|06-Jul-2022
| Rowspan=5 Colspan=4 align=middle|'''TBD'''
|-
! 2
| [[P. T. Usha]]
|-
! 3
| [[V. Vijayendra Prasad]]
|-
! 4
| [[Veerendra Heggade]]
|-
! 5
| [[Ghulam Ali Khatana]]
| bgcolor=#FF9933|
|[[List of nominated members of Rajya Sabha|Nominated]] (BJP)
| 10-Sep-2022
|-
|}

== Notes ==
{{notelist}}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

{{Rajya Sabha}}

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

2028 Rajya Sabha elections - Revision history

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