# 2002 Rajya Sabha elections

Rajya Sabha elections were held in 2002, to elect members of the Rajya Sabha, Indian Parliament's upper chamber. The elections were held to elect respectively 56 members from 17 states and four seats from Karnataka, four members from Jammu and Kashmir, and 11 members from two states for the Council of States, the Rajya Sabha.

## Elections

Elections were held in 2002 to elect members from various states. The list is incomplete.

### Members elected

The following members are elected in the elections held in 2002. They are members for the term 2002–2008 and retire in year 2008, except in case of the resignation or death before the term.
State - Member - Party
Rajya Sabha members for term 2002-2008 :
| State | Member Name | Party | Remark |
| MH | Ved Prakash Goyal | BJP | R |
| MH | Murli Deora | INC |
| MH | Prithviraj Chavan | INC |
| MH | Rajkumar Dhoot | SS |
| MH | Eknath Thakur | SS |
| MH | Datta Meghe | NCP |
| MH | Mukeshbhai R Patel | NCP | dea 15/06/2002 |
| MH | P C Alexander | IND | bye 29/07/2002 |
| Orissa | Surendra Lath | BJD |
| Orissa | Pramila Bahidar | INC |
| Orissa | Sushree Devi | INC |
| Orissa | Dilip Kumar Ray | BJP |
| TN | R. Shunmugasundaram | DMK | |
| TN | G.K. Vasan | INC |
| TN | N. Jothi | ADMK |
| TN | S.P.M. Syed Khan | ADMK |
| TN | Thanga Tamil Selvan | ADMK |
| TN | C. Perumal | ADMK |
| WB | Tarini Kanta Roy | CPM | |
| WB | Debabrata Biswas | AIFB |
| WB | Prasanta Chatterjee | CPM |
| WB | Sk. Khabir Uddin Ahmed | CPM |
| WB | Dinesh Trivedi | AITC |
| AP | T. Subbarami Reddy | INC | |
| AP | Nandi Yellaiah | INC |
| AP | N. P. Durga | TDP |
| AP | Ravula Chandra Sheker Reddy | TDP |
| AP | S. M. Laljan Basha | TDP |
| AP | Akarapu Sudershan | - |
| AS | Urkhao Gwra Brahma | IND | |
| AS | Dwijendra Nath Sharmah | INC |
| AS | Karnendu Bhattacharjee | INC |
| BH | Shatrughan Sinha | BJP | R |
| BH | Vashist Narain Singh | SP |
| BH | Magni Lal Mandal | RJD |
| BH | Ramdeb Bhandary | RJD |
| BH | Prem Chand Gupta | RJD |
| CG | Motilal Vora | INC | R |
| CG | Ramdhar | INC |
| GJ | Alka Balram Kshatriya | INC | R |
| GJ | Keshubhai Patel | BJP |
| GJ | Jana Krishnamurthi | BJP | dea 25/07/2007 |
| GJ | Jayantilal Barot | BJP |
| HR | Harendra Singh Malik | INLD | |
| HR | Ram Prakash | INC |
| HP | Suresh Bharadwaj | BJP | Res |
| JH | Devdas Apte | BJP | |
| JH | Ajay Kr. Masro | BJP |
| MP | Suresh Pachouri | INC | |
| MP | Maya Singh | BJP |
| MP | Mohd. Obedulla Khan | INC |
| MN | Rishang Keishing | INC | |
| RJ | K. Natwar Singh | INC | |
| RJ | Prabha Thakur | INC |
| RJ | Dr Ahmed Abrar | INC | dea 04/05/2004 |
| RJ | Gyan Prakash Pilania | BJP |
| MG | Robert Kharshiing | NCP | |
| AR | Nabam Rebia | INC | |
| KA | Janardhana Poojary | INC | |
| KA | Prema Cariappa | INC |
| KA | M. V. Rajasekharan | INC |
| KA | Vijay Mallya | IND |
| Jammu and Kashmir | Tarlok Singh Bajwa | JKPDP | |
| Jammu and Kashmir | Saifuddin Soz | INC |
| Jammu and Kashmir | Farooq Abdullah | JKNC |
| Jammu and Kashmir | Aslam Chowdhary Mohammad | JKPDP |
| UP | Akhilesh Das | BSP | Res 08/05/2008 |
| UP | Abu Asim Azmi | SP |
| UP | Amar Singh | SP |
| UP | Isam Singh | BSP | Disq 04/07/2008 |
| UP | Uday Pratap Singh | SP |
| UP | Gandhi Azad | BSP |
| UP | Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi | BJP |
| UP | Rajnath Singh | BJP |
| UP | Veer Singh | BSP |
| UP | Shahid Siddiqui | SP |
| UK | Harish Rawat | INC | R |

## Bye-elections

The following bye elections were held in the year 2002.
State - Member - Party
* Bye-elections were held on 30/05/2002 for vacancy from Tripura and Punjab due to election to Lok Sabha of seating member Khagan Das on 25.02.2002 with term ending on 02.04.2004 and due to resignation of seating member Balwinder Singh Bhunder on 07.03.2002 with term ending on 09.04.2004
* Bye-elections were held on 30/05/2002 for vacancy from Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand due to election to Lok Sabha of seating member Mohd. Azam Khan on 09.03.2002 with term ending on 25.11.2002 and due to resignation of seating member Dayanand Sahay on 19.03.2002 with term ending on 07.07.2004
* Bye-elections were held on 01/07/2002 for vacancy from Jharkhand due to election to JH Assembly of seating member Shibu Soren on 2 June 2002 with term ending on 2 April 2008.
* Bye-elections were held on 01/07/2002 for vacancy from Maharashtra due to death of seating member Mukeshbhai R Patel on 15 June 2002 with term ending on 2 April 2008. P C Alexander became member as IND candidate on bye 29/07/2002.
* Bye-elections were held on 18/11/2002 for vacancy from Uttar Pradesh due to resignation of seating member T N Chaturvedi on 20.8.2002 with term ending on --.