2020 Indian Rajya Sabha elections

2020 Rajya Sabha elections is 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.[4] 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.[5]

2020 Rajya Sabha elections

26 March 2020, 19 June 2020, 2 November 2020
73 seats to the Rajya Sabha
Leader Thawar Chand Gehlot Leader of the House Ghulam Nabi Azad Leader of the Opposition Party BJP INC Alliance NDA UPA Leader since 11 June 2019 8 June 2014 Leader's seat Madhya Pradesh Jammu and Kashmir Seats before 83[1] 46[2] Seats after 93[3] 37[3] Seat change 10 9

On 12 June 2020, Election commission of India declared unopposed victory over 4 seats of Karnataka and 1 seat of Arunachal Pradesh. Leaving behind 19 seats to go for elections on 19 June 2020.[6][7]

On 2 November 2020, Election commission of India declared unopposed victory over 10 seats of Uttar Pradesh and 1 seat of Uttarakhand.[8][9]

February Election

Note:

• Listed According Date Of Retirement

Nominated

Seat No.	Previous MP	Previous Party		Date of retirement	Nominated MP	Elected Party		Date of appointment	Reference
1	K. T. S. Tulsi		Nominated	25-Feb-2020	Ranjan Gogoi		Nominated	16-Mar-2020	[10]

April Election

Maharashtra

Seat No.	Previous MP	Previous Party		Date of retirement	Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Sharad Pawar		Nationalist Congress Party	02-Apr-2020	Sharad Pawar		Nationalist Congress Party	[11]
2	Majeed Memon		Nationalist Congress Party	02-Apr-2020	Fouzia Khan		Nationalist Congress Party
3	Husain Dalwai		Indian National Congress	02-Apr-2020	Rajiv Satav		Indian National Congress
4	Rajkumar Dhoot		Shiv Sena	02-Apr-2020	Priyanka Chaturvedi		Shiv Sena
5	Ramdas Athawale		Republican Party of India (A)	02-Apr-2020	Ramdas Athawale		Republican Party of India (A)
6	Amar Shankar Sable		Bharatiya Janata Party	02-Apr-2020	Udayanraje Bhosale		Bharatiya Janata Party
7	Sanjay Kakade		Independent	02-Apr-2020	Bhagwat Karad		Bharatiya Janata Party

Odisha

Seat No.	Previous MP	Previous Party		Date of retirement	Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Ranjib Biswal		Indian National Congress	02-Apr-2020	Subhash Chandra Singh		Biju Janata Dal	[12]
2	Narendra Kumar Swain		Biju Janata Dal	02-Apr-2020	Munna Khan		Biju Janata Dal
3	Sarojini Hembram		Biju Janata Dal	02-Apr-2020	Sujeet Kumar		Biju Janata Dal
4	Vacant (Anubhav Mohanty)			02-Apr-2020	Mamata Mahanta		Biju Janata Dal

Tamil Nadu

Seat No.	Previous MP	Previous Party		Date of retirement	Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Sasikala Pushpa Ramaswamy		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	02-Apr-2020	M. Thambidurai		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	[13]
2	Vijila Sathyananth		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	02-Apr-2020	K. P. Munusamy		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
3	S. Muthukaruppan		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	02-Apr-2020	G. K. Vasan		Tamil Maanila Congress
4	K. Selvaraj		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	02-Apr-2020	Anthiyur P. Selvaraj		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
5	Tiruchi Siva		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	02-Apr-2020	Tiruchi Siva		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
6	T. K. Rangarajan		Communist Party of India (Marxist)	02-Apr-2020	N. R. Elango		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

West Bengal

Seat No.	Previous MP	Previous Party		Date of retirement	Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Ahmed Hassan Imran		All India Trinamool Congress	02-Apr-2020	Dinesh Trivedi		All India Trinamool Congress	[14]
2	Kanwar Deep Singh		All India Trinamool Congress	02-Apr-2020	Arpita Ghosh		All India Trinamool Congress
3	Jogen Chowdhury		All India Trinamool Congress	02-Apr-2020	Mausam Noor		All India Trinamool Congress
4	Manish Gupta		All India Trinamool Congress	02-Apr-2020	Subrata Bakshi		All India Trinamool Congress
5	Ritabrata Banerjee		Independent	02-Apr-2020	Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya		Communist Party of India (Marxist)

Andhra Pradesh

Seat No.	Previous MP	Previous Party		Date of retirement	Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	T. Subbarami Reddy		Indian National Congress	09-Apr-2020	Alla Ayodhya Rami Reddy		YSR Congress Party	[15]
2	Mohd. Ali Khan		Indian National Congress	09-Apr-2020	Pilli Subhash Chandra Bose		YSR Congress Party
3	Thota Seetharama Lakshmi		Telugu Desam Party	09-Apr-2020	Mopidevi Venkataramana		YSR Congress Party
4	K. Keshava Rao		Telangana Rashtra Samithi	09-Apr-2020	Parimal Nathwani		YSR Congress Party

Assam

Seat No.	Previous MP	Previous Party		Date of retirement	Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Biswajit Daimary		Bodoland People's Front	09-Apr-2020	Biswajit Daimary		Bodoland People's Front	[16]
2	Vacant (Bhubaneshwar Kalita)			09-Apr-2020	Bhubaneshwar Kalita		Bharatiya Janata Party
3	Vacant (Sanjaya Sinh)			09-Apr-2020	Ajit Kumar Bhuyan		Independent

Bihar

Seat No.	Previous MP	Previous Party		Date of retirement	Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Harivansh Narayan Singh		Janata Dal (United)	09-Apr-2020	Harivansh Narayan Singh		Janata Dal (United)	[16]
2	Ram Nath Thakur		Janata Dal (United)	09-Apr-2020	Ram Nath Thakur		Janata Dal (United)
3	Kahkashan Perween		Janata Dal (United)	09-Apr-2020	Prem Chand Gupta		Rashtriya Janata Dal
4	Ravindra Kishore Sinha		Bharatiya Janata Party	09-Apr-2020	Amarendra Dhari Singh		Rashtriya Janata Dal
5	C. P. Thakur		Bharatiya Janata Party	09-Apr-2020	Vivek Thakur		Bharatiya Janata Party

Chhattisgarh

Seat No.	Previous MP	Previous Party		Date of retirement	Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Ranvijay Singh Judev		Bharatiya Janata Party	09-Apr-2020	K. T. S. Tulsi		Indian National Congress	[17]
2	Motilal Vora		Indian National Congress	09-Apr-2020	Phulo Devi Netam		Indian National Congress

Gujarat

Seat No.	Previous MP	Previous Party		Date of retirement	Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Chunibhai K Gohel		Bharatiya Janata Party	09-Apr-2020	Abhay Bhardwaj		Bharatiya Janata Party	[18]
2	Shambhuprasad Tundiya		Bharatiya Janata Party	09-Apr-2020	Ramilaben Bara		Bharatiya Janata Party
3	Lal Sinh Vadodia		Bharatiya Janata Party	09-Apr-2020	Narhari Amin		Bharatiya Janata Party
4	Madhusudan Mistry		Indian National Congress	09-Apr-2020	Shaktisinh Gohil		Indian National Congress

Haryana

Seat No.	Previous MP	Previous Party		Date of retirement	Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Selja Kumari		Indian National Congress	09-Apr-2020	Deepender Singh Hooda		Indian National Congress	[19]
2	Vacant (Ram Kumar Kashyap)			09-Apr-2020	Ram Chander Jangra		Bharatiya Janata Party

Himachal Pradesh

Seat No.	Previous MP	Previous Party		Date of retirement	Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Viplove Thakur		Indian National Congress	09-Apr-2020	Indu Goswami		Bharatiya Janata Party	[20]

Jharkhand

Seat No.	Previous MP	Previous Party		Date of retirement	Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Prem Chand Gupta		Rashtriya Janata Dal	09-Apr-2020	Shibu Soren		Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	[21]
2	Parimal Nathwani		Independent	09-Apr-2020	Deepak Prakash		Bharatiya Janata Party

Madhya Pradesh

Seat No.	Previous MP	Previous Party		Date of retirement	Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Satyanarayan Jatiya		Bharatiya Janata Party	09-Apr-2020	Jyotiraditya Scindia		Bharatiya Janata Party	[22]
2	Prabhat Jha		Bharatiya Janata Party	09-Apr-2020	Sumer Singh Solanki		Bharatiya Janata Party
3	Digvijaya Singh		Indian National Congress	09-Apr-2020	Digvijaya Singh		Indian National Congress

Manipur

Seat No.	Previous MP	Previous Party		Date of retirement	Elected MP		Elected Party	Reference
1	Bhabananda Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party	09-Apr-2020	Leishemba Sanajaoba		Bharatiya Janata Party	[23]

Rajasthan

Seat No.	Previous MP	Previous Party		Date of retirement	Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Narayan Lal Panchariya		Bharatiya Janata Party	09-Apr-2020	Rajendra Gehlot		Bharatiya Janata Party	[24]
2	Ramnarayan Dudi		Bharatiya Janata Party	09-Apr-2020	K. C. Venugopal		Indian National Congress
3	Vijay Goel		Bharatiya Janata Party	09-Apr-2020	Neeraj Dangi		Indian National Congress

Telangana

Seat No.	Previous MP	Previous Party		Date of retirement	Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Garikapati Mohan Rao		Bharatiya Janata Party	09-Apr-2020	K. Keshava Rao		Telangana Rashtra Samithi	[25]
2	K. V. P. Ramachandra Rao		Indian National Congress	09-Apr-2020	K. R. Suresh Reddy		Telangana Rashtra Samithi

Meghalaya

Seat No.	Previous MP	Previous Party		Date of retirement	Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Wansuk Syiem		Indian National Congress	12-Apr-2020	Wanweiroy Kharlukhi		National People's Party	[26]

June Election

Arunachal Pradesh

Seat No.	Previous MP	Previous Party		Date of retirement	Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Mukut Mithi		Indian National Congress	23-Jun-2020	Nabam Rebia		Bharatiya Janata Party	[27]

Karnataka

Seat No.	Previous MP	Previous Party		Date of retirement	Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Prabhakar Kore		Bharatiya Janata Party	25-Jun-2020	Ashok Gasti		Bharatiya Janata Party	[28]
2	B. K. Hariprasad		Indian National Congress	25-Jun-2020	Eranna Kadadi		Bharatiya Janata Party
3	Rajeev Gowda		Indian National Congress	25-Jun-2020	Mallikarjun Kharge		Indian National Congress
4	D. Kupendra Reddy		Janata Dal (Secular)	25-Jun-2020	H. D. Deve Gowda		Janata Dal (Secular)

Mizoram

Seat No.	Previous MP	Previous Party		Date of retirement	Elected MP	Elected Party		Reference
1	Ronald Sapa Tlau		Indian National Congress	18-Jul-2020	K. Vanlalvena		Mizo National Front	[29]

November Election

Uttar Pradesh

Seat No.	Previous MP	Previous Party		Date of retirement	Elected MP	Elected Party
1	Ram Gopal Yadav		Samajwadi Party	25-Nov-2020	Ram Gopal Yadav		Samajwadi Party
2	Ravi Prakash Verma		Samajwadi Party	25-Nov-2020	Seema Dwivedi		Bharatiya Janata Party
3	Chandrapal Singh Yadav		Samajwadi Party	25-Nov-2020	Hardwar Dubey		Bharatiya Janata Party
4	Javed Ali Khan		Samajwadi Party	25-Nov-2020	Brij Lal		Bharatiya Janata Party
5	Hardeep Singh Puri		Bharatiya Janata Party	25-Nov-2020	Hardeep Singh Puri		Bharatiya Janata Party
6	Arun Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party	25-Nov-2020	Arun Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party
7	Neeraj Shekhar		Bharatiya Janata Party	25-Nov-2020	Neeraj Shekhar		Bharatiya Janata Party
8	P. L. Punia		Indian National Congress	25-Nov-2020	Geeta Shakya		Bharatiya Janata Party
9	Veer Singh		Bahujan Samaj Party	25-Nov-2020	B. L. Verma		Bharatiya Janata Party
10	Rajaram		Bahujan Samaj Party	25-Nov-2020	Ramji Gautam		Bahujan Samaj Party

Uttarakhand

Seat No.	Previous MP	Previous Party		Date of retirement	Elected MP	Elected Party
1	Raj Babbar		Indian National Congress	25-Nov-2020	Naresh Bansal		Bharatiya Janata Party

By-elections

Aside from automatic elections, unforeseen vacancies caused by members' resignation, death or disqualification, are unless a few months before the expected natural expiry of the term of tenure, filled via by-elections, which for the Rajya Sabha often take some months to organise.

Haryana

• On 20 January 2020 Birender Singh Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from Haryana[30]

S.No	Former MP	Party		Date of Vacancy	Elected MP	Party		Date of appointment	Date of retirement
1	Birender Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party	20 January 2020	Dushyant Kumar Gautam		Bharatiya Janata Party	16 March 2020	1 August 2022

Bihar

• On 8 October 2020, Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan died.[31]

S.No	Former MP	Party		Date of Vacancy	Elected MP	Party Name		Date of Appointment	Date of retirement
1	Ram Vilas Paswan		Lok Janshakti Party	08 October 2020	Sushil Kumar Modi		Bharatiya Janata Party	7 December 2020	2 April 2024

Uttar Pradesh

• On 27 March 2020 Beni Prasad Verma died.
• On 1 August 2020 Amar Singh died.

S.No	Former MP	Party		Date of Vacancy	Elected MP	Party		Date of appointment	Date of retirement
1	Beni Prasad Verma		Samajwadi Party	27 March 2020	Jai Prakash Nishad		Bharatiya Janata Party	17 August 2020	4 July 2022
2	Amar Singh		Independent	1 August 2020	Syed Zafar Islam		Bharatiya Janata Party	11 September 2020	4 July 2022

Kerala

• On 28 May 2020 Veerendra Kumar died.

S.No	Former MP	Party		Date of Vacancy	Elected MP	Party		Date of appointment	Date of retirement
1	M. P. Veerendra Kumar		Independent	28 May 2020	M. V. Shreyams Kumar		Loktantrik Janata Dal	24 August 2020	2 April 2022

Karnataka

• On 17 September 2020 Ashok Gasti died.

S.No	Former MP	Party		Date of Vacancy	Elected MP	Party		Date of appointment	Date of retirement
1	Ashok Gasti		Bharatiya Janata Party	17 September 2020	K. Narayan		Bharatiya Janata Party	23 November 2020	25 June 2026

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