# 1970 Rajya Sabha elections

Rajya Sabha elections were held in 1970, to elect members of the Rajya Sabha, Indian Parliament's upper chamber.

## Elections

Elections were held in 1970 to elect members from various states. The list is incomplete.

### Members elected

The following members are elected in the elections held in 1970. They are members for the term 1970-76 and retire in year 1976, except in case of the resignation or death before the term.
State - Member - Party
Rajya Sabha members for term 1970-1976 :
| State | Member Name | Party | Remark |
| Assam | Bipinpal Das | INC | R |
| Assam | Emonsing M Sangma | INC |
| AP | M R Krishna | INC |
| AP | K L N Prasad | INC |
| AP | V B Raju | INC |
| AP | K Srinivasa Rao | IND |
| AP | Gaddam Narayana Reddy | INC |
| AP | Venigalla Satyanarayana | INC |
| AP | D Sanjivayya | INC | Death 07 May 1972 |
| BH | A Q Ansari | INC | Res. 19/03/1972 |
| BH | Bhola Prasad | CPI |
| BH | Aziza Imam | INC | elec 20/03/1973 |
| BH | Dharamchand Jain | INC |
| BH | Shrikant Mishra | JS | Death 01 Oct 1970 |
| BH | Mohammad Chaudhary A | INC | Death 07 Feb 1973 |
| BH | Bhola Paswan Shastri | INC |
| BH | Shishir Kumar | OTH |
| BH | Awadeshwar Prasad Sinha | INC |
| BH | Sitaram Singh | OTH |
| DL | L K Advani | JS |
| GJ | Kumud Ben Joshi | INC |
| GJ | Yogendra Makwana | INC | elec. 05 Mar 1973 |
| GJ | D K Patel | JS |
| GJ | Manubhai Shah | INC |
| GJ | Shamprasad R Vasavada | CO | Death 20/11/1972 |
| HP | Roshan Lal | INC |
| HP | D D Puri | INC |
| JK | Tirath Ram Amla | INC |
| JK | Om Mehta | INC |
| KA | K Nagappa Alva | CO |
| KA | K S Malle Gowda | INC |
| KA | B P Nagaraja Murthy | INC |
| KA | Mulka Govind Reddy | INC |
| KL | K Chandrasekaran | SP |
| KL | S. Kumaran | CPI |
| KL | Dr K Mathew Kurian | CPM |
| MP | S C Angre | OTH |
| MP | Balram Das | INC |
| MP | Vijay Bhushan Deosharan | JP |
| MP | Chakrapani Shukla | INC |
| MP | Sawai Singh Sisodia | INC |
| MP | Bhawani Prasad Tiwary | INC |
| MH | Shankarrao Bobdey | INC |
| MH | Babubhai M Chinai | IND | Death 07 July 1975 |
| MH | Mohan Dharia | INC | Res. 10 Mar 1971 |
| MH | V. N. Gadgil | INC |
| MH | N G Goray | OTH |
| MH | A. G. Kulkarni | INC |
| MH | Dahyabhai_Patel | INC | Death 11/08/1973 |
| MH | Sriniwas G. Sardesai | CPI |
| NOM | Maragatham Chandrasekar | INC |
| NOM | Jairamdas Daulatram | NOM |
| NOM | Umashankar Joshi | NOM |
| NOM | Prof Rasheeduddin Khan | NOM |
| OR | Bira Kesari Deo | OTH |
| OR | K P Singh Deo | OTH | elec. 28/01/1972 |
| OR | Binoy Kumar Mahanti | INC |
| OR | Surajmal Saha | INC | Death 13/09/1971 |
| PB | Bhupinder Singh | SAD |
| PB | Inder Kumar Gujral | INC |
| PB | Gurcharan Singh Tohra | SAD |
| RJ | M U Arif | INC |
| RJ | Jagdish Prasad Mathur | JS |
| RJ | Narayani Devi Varma | INC |
| TN | A K A Abdul Samad | ML |
| TN | T V Anandan | CO |
| TN | K Kalyanasudaram | DMK |
| TN | S S Mariswamy | DMK |
| TN | S S T Rajendran | DMK |
| TN | T K Srinivasan | DMK |
| UP | Uma Shankar Dikshit | INC | Res. 10 Jan 1976 |
| UP | Inder Singh | INC |
| UP | Kalyan Chand | INC |
| UP | Nawal Kishore | INC | Death 19/04/1975 |
| UP | Nageshwar Prasad Shahi | OTH |
| UP | Mahavir Prasad Shukla | INC |
| UP | Tribhuvan Narain Singh | C-O |
| UP | Triloki Singh | INC |
| UP | Dattopant Thengadi | JS |
| UP | Mahavir Tyagi | CO |
| UP | Shyamlal_Yadav | INC |
| WB | Salil Kumar Ganguli | CPM |
| WB | Bhupesh Gupta | CPI |
| WB | Purabi Mukhopadhyay | INC |
| WB | Sasankasekhar Sanyal | CPM |
| WB | Dwijendralal Sen Gupta | IND |

## Bye-elections

The following bye elections were held in the year 1970.
State - Member - Party
* Kerala - H A Schamnad - ML ( ele 05/02/1970 term till 1973 ) d of Kesavan Thazhava
* Mysore - M Sherkhan - INC ( ele 30/03/1970 term till 1972 )
* Haryana - Sultan Singh - INC ( ele 31/03/1970 term till 1974 )
* Nominated - M N Kaul - NOM ( ele 03/04/1970 term till 1972 )
* Kerala - N K Krishnan - CPI ( ele 10/11/1970 term till 1974 )
* Bihar - Pratibha Singh - INC ( ele 31/12/1970 term till 1976 )
* Uttar Pradesh - Shiv Swaroop Singh - INC ( ele 31/12/1970 term till 1972 )