Rajya Sabha elections will be held in India in June and July 2017 to elect ten members of the Rajya Sabha, replacing those who will retire in July and August 2017.[1]
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11 seats to the Rajya Sabha | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Members retiring
The following members are scheduled to retire in 2017.
| Sr No | State | Retiring MP | Party | Date of retirement | Reference | |
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| 1 | Goa | Shantaram Naik | width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" rowspan=1| | Congress | July 28, 2017 | [1] |
| 2 | Gujarat | Smriti Irani | width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" rowspan=2| | BJP | August 18, 2017 | |
| Dilip Pandya | ||||||
| Ahmed Patel | width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" rowspan=1| | Congress | ||||
| 3 | West Bengal | Sukhendu Sekhar Roy | width="1px" bgcolor="Template:All India Trinamool Congress/meta/color" rowspan=4| | Trinamool Congress | August 18, 2017 | |
| Derek O'Brien | ||||||
| Debabrata Bandyopadhyay | ||||||
| Dola Sen | ||||||
| Sitaram Yechury | width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Communist Party of India (Marxist)/meta/color" rowspan=1| | CPI(M) | ||||
| Pradip Bhattacharya | width="1px" bgcolor="Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" rowspan=1| | Congress | ||||
Bye-elections
In addition to scheduled elections, unforeseen vacancies, caused by members' retirement or death, may also be filled via bye-elections.
- In December 2016, Mithun Chakraborty, a Trinamool Congress member from West Bengal, resigned his seat, citing health reasons.[2]
| Sr No | State | Retiring MP | Party | Elected MP | Party | Reference | ||
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| 1 | West Bengal | Mithun Chakraborty | width="1px" bgcolor="Template:All India Trinamool Congress/meta/color" rowspan=1| | Trinamool Congress | Manish Gupta | width="1px" bgcolor="Template:All India Trinamool Congress/meta/color" rowspan=1| | Trinamool Congress | [3] |
References
- ^ a b "Statewise Retirement". 164.100.47.5. Retrieved 12 June 2016.
- ^ "Mithun Chakraborty Resigns From Rajya Sabha Citing Health Reasons". NDTV. December 26, 2016. Retrieved December 31, 2016.
- ^ "Trinamool's Manish Gupta elected as RS member". The Indian Express. Kolkata. March 11, 2017. Retrieved March 31, 2017.