# 1996 Rajya Sabha elections

Rajya Sabha elections were held in 1996, to elect members of the Rajya Sabha, Indian Parliament's upper house. 59 members from 17 states, 1 member from Mizoram State, and 15 members from 3 states of JK, UK and UP were elected.

## Elections

Elections were held in 1996 to elect members from various states. The list is incomplete.

### Members elected

The following members are elected in the elections held in 1996. They are members for the term 1996-2002 and retire in year 2002, except in case of the resignation or death before the term.
State - Member - Party
Rajya Sabha members for term 1996-2002 :
| State | Member Name | Party | Remark |
| Maharashtra | Suresh A Keswani | IND | R |
| Maharashtra | Vedprakash P. Goyal | BJP |
| Maharashtra | Shankarrao Chavan | INC |
| Maharashtra | Mukeshbhai R Patel | SS |
| Maharashtra | Suryabhan Raghunath Patil Vahadane | BJP |
| Maharashtra | Adhik Shirolkar | SS |
| Maharashtra | N.K.P. Salve | INC |
| Orissa | Jayanti Patnaik | INC | Res 03/03/1998 LS |
| Orissa | Ananta Sethi | INC |
| Orissa | Frida Topno | INC |
| Orissa | Maurice Kujur | INC |
| Orissa | Dilip Kumar Ray | BJD |
| Tamil Nadu | S Peter Alphonse | INC | Res 09/09/1997 |
| Tamil Nadu | S Peter Alphonse | TMC | fr 10/10/1997 |
| Tamil Nadu | N Shiva | DMK |
| Tamil Nadu | R. Subbian | DMK |
| Tamil Nadu | P. Soundararajan | AIADMK |
| Tamil Nadu | xxx | AIADMK | 18.5.2001 |
| Tamil Nadu | S. Niraikulathan | AIADMK |
| Tamil Nadu | R K Kumar | AIADMK | dea 03/10/1999 |
| Tamil Nadu | N Thalavi Sundaram | AIADMK |
| Tamil Nadu | T M Venkatachalam | AIADMK | dea 02/12/1999 |
| West Bengal | Dawa Lama | CPM | |
| West Bengal | Bratin Sengupta | CPM |
| West Bengal | Prof Bharati Ray | CPM |
| West Bengal | Md. Salim | CPM | res 25.5.2001 |
| West Bengal | Debabrata Biswas | AIFB |
| Andhra Pradesh | Nahata Jayaprada | TDP | |
| Andhra Pradesh | Dr Yelamanchili Radhakrishna Murthy | CPM |
| Andhra Pradesh | Yarlagadda Lakshmi Prasad | TDP |
| Andhra Pradesh | K M Saifullah | TDP |
| Andhra Pradesh | Solipeta Ramachandra Reddy | TDP |
| Andhra Pradesh | Daggubati Venkateswar Rao | TDP(NTR) |
| Assam | Karnendu Bhattacharjee | INC | |
| Assam | Basanti Sarma | INC |
| Assam | Prakanta Warisa | ASDC |
| Bihar | Nagendra Nath Ojha | CPI | |
| Bihar | Prem Chand Gupta | JD |
| Bihar | Jagdambi Mandal | JD | dea 13/01/2000 |
| Bihar | Ranjan Prasad Yadav | RJD |
| Bihar | Shatrughan Prasad Sinha | BJP |
| Bihar | Ram Deo Bhandari | RJD |
| Bihar | Gyan Ranjan | INC | dea 22/04/1998 |
| Chhattisgarh | Lakhiram Agrawal | BJP | fr 01/11/2000 |
| Chhattisgarh | Surendra Kumar Singh | INC | fr 01/11/2000 |
| Gujarat | Anantray Devshanker Dave | BJP | |
| Gujarat | Laxmanji Bangaru Narsimha | BJP |
| Gujarat | Gopalsinhji Gulabsinhji | BJP |
| Gujarat | Brahmkumar Ranchhodlal Bhatt | INC |
| Haryana | Banarasi Das Gupta | INC | |
| Haryana | Lachhman Singh | INC |
| Himachal Pradesh | Chandresh Kumari | INC | |
| Jharkhand | Obaidullah Khan Azmi | JD | |
| Jharkhand | Ven Dhamma Viriyo | RJD |
| Karnataka | H. D. Deve Gowda | JD | bye 23/09/1996 res 1998 LS |
| Karnataka | Leeladevi Renuka Prasad | JD | 22/04/1996 |
| Karnataka | C. M. Ibrahim | JD |
| Karnataka | Ramakrishna Hegde | JD |
| Karnataka | A. Lakshmisagar | JD |
| Karnataka | S M Krishna | INC | Res 14/10/1999 |
| Karnataka | K. C. Kondaiah | INC | bye 14/01/2000 |
| Madhya Pradesh | A G Qureshi | INC | |
| Madhya Pradesh | Suresh Pachouri | INC |
| Madhya Pradesh | Sikandar Bakht | BJP |
| Madhya Pradesh | Lakhiram Agrawal | BJP | till 31/10/2000 |
| Madhya Pradesh | Surendra Kumar Singh | INC | till 31/10/2000 |
| Rajashthan | K.K. Birla | INC | |
| Rajashthan | Ramdas Agarwal | BJP |
| Rajashthan | Dr Mahesh Chandra Sharma | BJP |
| Meghalaya | Onward L Nongtdu | INC | |
| Arunachal Pradesh | Nabam Rebia | IND | |
| Mizoram | Hiphei | INC | |
| Jammu and Kashmir | Prof Saifuddin Soz | JKNC | res 10/03/1998 LS |
| Jammu and Kashmir | Kushok Nawang Chamba Stanzin | JKNC | Bye Apr 98 |
| Jammu and Kashmir | Sharief-ud-Din Shariq | JKNC |
| Jammu and Kashmir | Ghulam Nabi Azad | INC |
| Jammu and Kashmir | Mirza Abdul Rashid | -- |
| UP | Akhilesh Das | BSP | |
| UP | Sunil Shastri | INC |
| UP | Amar Singh | SP |
| UP | Chunni Lal Chowdhary | BJP | dea 03/12/2000 |
| UP | Shyam Lal | BJP | fr 16/02/2001 |
| UP | Devi Prasad Singh | BJP |
| UP | Gandhi Azad | BSP |
| UP | R. N. Arya | BSP |
| UP | Narendra Mohan | BJP | dea 20/09/2002 |
| UP | Rajnath Singh Surya | BJP |
| UP | Balwant Singh Ramoowalia | SAD | |
| UP | Azam Khan | SP | res 09/03/2002 |
| UP | Manohar Kant Dhyani | BJP | from UP till 08/11/2000 |
| Uttarakhand | Manohar Kant Dhyani | BJP | from UK onwards 09/11/2000 |
| Manipur | W. Angou Singh | INC |

## Bye-elections

The following bye elections were held in the year 1996.
State - Member - Party
* HR - K L Poswal - INC ( ele 13/02/1996 term till 1998 )
* MH - Prof Ram Kapse - BJP ( ele 27/09/1996 term till 1998 )
* MH - Sanjay Nirupam - SS ( ele 27/09/1996 term till 2000 )
* UP - Dara_Singh_Chauhan - BSP ( ele 30/11/1996 term till 2000 ) res of Mayawati
* UP - Khan Ghufran Zahidi - INC ( ele 30/11/1996 term till 1998 )
* UP - Ahmad Wasim - INC ( ele 30/11/1996 term till 1998 )
* Tamil Nadu - V.K. Duraisamy - DMK ( ele 26/11/1996 term till 2001 ) res of V.K. Duraisamy fr AIADMK
* GJ - Yoginder K Alagh - IND ( ele 26/11/1996 term till 2000 ) res of