2000 Rajya Sabha elections

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,[1] 58 members from 15 states [2] and 3 members from Kerala[3] for the Council of States, the Rajya Sabha.[4]

2000 Rajya Sabha elections

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(of 228 seats) to the Rajya Sabha
  First party Second party
 
Leader Jaswant Singh Manmohan Singh
Party BJP INC

Elections

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

Members elected

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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

Rajya Sabha members for term 2000-2006
State Member Name Party Remark
Delhi[1] Karan Singh INC
Delhi Janardan Dwivedi INC
Delhi P. M. Sayeed INC
Sikkim[1] P.T. Gyamtso SDF
AP[2] 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[2] 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[2] Kamla Manhar INC
GJ[2] Arun Jaitley BJP
GJ Dr A K Patel INC
GJ Rajubhai A Parmar INC
GJ Lekhraj H Bachani INC
HR[2] Ramji Lal INLD
HP[2] Sunil Barongpa INC
JH[2] S. S. Ahluwalia BJP
JH RK Anand INC
KA[2] Bimba Raikar INC
KA K. Rahman Khan INC
KA M. Rajasekara Murthy INC Res 10-11-2005
KA K.B. Krishna Murthy INC
MP[2] H. R. Bhardwaj INC
MP Arjun Singh INC
MP P K Maheshwari INC
MP Narayan Singh Kesari BJP
MP Vikram Verma BJP
MH[2] Balavant Apte BJP
MH R. S. Gavai RPI
MH Yusuf Sanwar Khan INC
MH Rajeev Shukla INC
MH Praful Patel NCP
MH Vasant Chavan NCP
MH Ram Jethmalani OTH
UP [2] 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[2] Sushma Swaraj BJP fr UP till 08/11/2000
WB[2] Nilotpal Basu CPM
WB Dipankar Mukherjee CPM
WB Manoj Bhattacharya RSP
WB Jayanta Bhattacharya INC
WB Biplab Dasgupta CPM Dea 17-07-2005
OR[2] Rudra Narayan Pany BJP
OR Birabhadra Singh --
OR Baijayant Panda BJD
RJ [2] Ramdas Agarwal BJP
RJ Jamna Devi INC
RJ Mool Chand INC
Kerala[3] P.J. Kurien INC
Kerala N.K. Premachandran RSP
Kerala M. P. Abdussamad Samadani ML

Bye-elections

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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.[5] 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.[5]
  • 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. [6]
  • 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. [7]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Biennial Elections to the Council of States (Rajya Sabha) from National Capital Territory of Delhi and Sikkim – 2005-06" (PDF). ECI, New Delhi. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p "Biennial Elections to the Council of States (Rajya Sabha) and State Legislative Councils of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh by (MLAs)-2006" (PDF). ECI New Delhi. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
  3. ^ a b "Biennial Election to the Council of States from Kerala" (PDF). Election Commission of India, New Delhi. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
  4. ^ "Alphabetical List Of Former Members Of Rajya Sabha Since 1952". Rajya Sabha Secretariat, New Delhi. Retrieved 13 September 2017.
  5. ^ a b "Elections to Rajya Sabha" (PDF). ECI New Delhi. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
  6. ^ "Biennial elections to the Council of States (Rajya Sabha) to fill the seats of members retiring on 02.04.2000" (PDF). ECI, New Delhi. Retrieved 10 October 2017.
  7. ^ "Bye-election to the Council of States (Rajya Sabha) from the State of Sikkim" (PDF). ECI, New Delhi. Retrieved 3 October 2017.