The biennial election for Rajya Sabha seats, falling vacant as the terms of the incumbents MPs are set to expire, is scheduled for February 27. A total of 56 members of Rajya Sabha from 15 states are retiring in April and the election to the seats will be held on February 27. Union ministers Mansukh Mandaviya and Parshottam Rupala from Gujarat, and Union minister Narayan Rane from Maharashtra are among those retiring from the House.
Here is the full list of candidates
S.No | State | Seats going to polls | Candidates |
1. | Uttar Pradesh | 10 | R P N Singh (BJP), Chaudhary Tejveer Singh (BJP), Amarpal Maurya (BJP), Sangeeta Balwant (BJP), Sudhanshu Trivedi (BJP), Sadhna Singh (BJP), Naveen Jain (BJP), Sanjay Seth (BJP), Jaya Bachchan (SP), Alok Ranjan (SP), Ramji Lal Suman (SP) |
2. | Maharashtra | 6 | Ashok Chavan (BJP), Medha Kulkarni (BJP), Ajeet Gopchade (BJP), Milind Deora (Shiv Sena-Shinde), Praful Patel (NCP-Ajit Pawar) and Chandrakant Handore (Congress) |
3. | Bihar | 6 | Manoj Kumar Jha (RJD) and Sanjay Yadav (RJD), Akhilesh Prasad Singh (Congress), Bhim Singh (BJP), Dharamsheela Gupta (BJP), Sanjay Kumar Jha (JDU) |
4. | West Bengal | 5 | Sagarika Ghose (TMC), Nadimul Haque (TMC), Sushmita Dev (TMC), Mamata Bala Thakur (TMC) and Samik Bhattacharya (BJP) |
5. | Madhya Pradesh | 5 | Ashok Singh (Congress), L Murugan (BJP), Maya Naroliya (BJP), Umesh Nath Maharaj (BJP), Banshilal Gurjar (BJP) |
6. | Gujarat | 4 | JP Nadda (BJP), Govindbhai Dholakia (BJP), Mayankbhai Nayak (BJP) and Jasvantsinh Salamsinh Parmar (BJP) |
7. | Karnataka | 4 | Ajay Maken (Congress), Syed Naseer Hussain (Congress), GC Chandrasekhar (Congress) and Narayana Bhandage (BJP) |
8. | Andhra Pradesh | 3 | Y V Subba Reddy (YSRCP), G Babu Rao (YSRCP), M Raghunadha Reddy (YSRCP) |
9. | Telangana | 3 | Renuka Chowdhury (Congress), Anil Kumar Yadav (Congress) |
10. | Rajasthan | 3 | Sonia Gandhi (Congress), Chunnilal Garasiya (BJP) and Madan Rathore (BJP) |
11. | Odisha | 3 | Debashish Samantaray (BJD), Subhasish Khuntia (BJD) and Ashwini Vaishnaw (BJP) |
12. | Uttarakhand | 1 | Mahendra Bhatt (BJP) |
13. | Chhattisgarh | 1 | Devendra Pratap Singh (BJP) |
14. | Haryana | 1 | Subhash Barala (BJP) |
15. | Himachal Pradesh | 1 | Abhishek Singhvi (Congress), Harsh Mahajan (BJP) |