# 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, 58 members from 15 states and 3 members from Kerala for the Council of States, the Rajya Sabha.

## Elections

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

### Members elected

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 | Karan Singh | INC |
| Delhi | Janardan Dwivedi | INC |
| Delhi | P. M. Sayeed | INC |
| Sikkim | P.T. Gyamtso | SDF |
| AP | 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 | 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 | Kamla Manhar | INC | |
| GJ | Arun Jaitley | BJP | |
| GJ | Dr A K Patel | INC |
| GJ | Rajubhai A Parmar | INC |
| GJ | Lekhraj H Bachani | INC |
| HR | Ramji Lal | INLD | |
| HP | Sunil Barongpa | INC | |
| JH | S. S. Ahluwalia | BJP | |
| JH | RK Anand | INC |
| KA | Bimba Raikar | INC | |
| KA | K. Rahman Khan | INC |
| KA | M. Rajasekara Murthy | INC | Res 10-11-2005 |
| KA | K.B. Krishna Murthy | INC |
| MP | H. R. Bhardwaj | INC | |
| MP | Arjun Singh | INC |
| MP | P K Maheshwari | INC |
| MP | Narayan Singh Kesari | BJP |
| MP | Vikram Verma | BJP |
| MH | 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 | 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 | Sushma Swaraj | BJP | fr UP till 08/11/2000 |
| WB | Nilotpal Basu | CPM | |
| WB | Dipankar Mukherjee | CPM | |
| WB | Manoj Bhattacharya | RSP | |
| WB | Jayanta Bhattacharya | INC | |
| WB | Biplab Dasgupta | CPM | Dea 17-07-2005 |
| OR | Rudra Narayan Pany | BJP | |
| OR | Birabhadra Singh | -- | |
| OR | Baijayant Panda | BJD | |
| RJ | Ramdas Agarwal | BJP | |
| RJ | Jamna Devi | INC |
| RJ | Mool Chand | INC |
| Kerala | P.J. Kurien | INC | |
| Kerala | N.K. Premachandran | RSP | |
| Kerala | M. P. Abdussamad Samadani | ML | |

## Bye-elections

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. 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.
* 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.
* 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.