# 1972 Rajya Sabha elections

Rajya Sabha elections were held in 1972, to elect members of the Rajya Sabha, Indian Parliament's upper chamber.

## Elections

Elections were held in 1972 to elect members from various states. The list is incomplete.

### Members elected

The following members are elected in the elections held in 1972. They are members for the term 1972-78 and retire in year 1978, except in case of the resignation or death before the term.
State - Member - Party
Rajya Sabha members for term 1972-1978 :
| | Member Name | Party | Remark |
| Andhra Pradesh | KASIM ALI ABID | INC | R |
| Andhra Pradesh | A. S. Chowdhri | IND |
| Andhra Pradesh | Kota Punnaiah | INC |
| Andhra Pradesh | N. Janardhana Reddy | INC |
| Andhra Pradesh | Todak Basar | INC |
| Andhra Pradesh | Bezavada Pepireddi | OTH |
| Andhra Pradesh | Rathnabai S Rao | INC |
| Assam | B C Bhagawati | INC |
| Assam | Nabin Chandra Buragohain | INC |
| Assam | Nripati Ranjan Choudhury | INC |
| Bihar | Yogendra Sharma | CPI |
| Bihar | Jahanara Jaipal Singh | INC |
| Bihar | Bhupendra Narayan Mandal | SSP | dea 30/05/1975 |
| Bihar | D.P. Singh | INC |
| Bihar | Shyamlal Gupta | INC |
| Bihar | Bhaiya Ram Munda | INC |
| Bihar | Gunanand Thakur | INC |
| Delhi | Savita Behen | INC | |
| Gujarat | Ibrahim Kalaniya | INC | |
| Gujarat | Himmat Sinh | INC |
| Gujarat | Sumitra G Kulkarni | INC |
| Gujarat | H M Trivedi | JAN |
| Haryana | Krishna Kant | INC | 20/03/1977 LS |
| Haryana | Ranbir Singh | INC |
| Himachal Pradesh | Jagannath Bhardwaj | JAN |
| Jammu & Kashmir | D. P. Dhar | INC | res 07/02/1975 |
| Karnataka | Maqsood Ali Khan | INC | |
| Karnataka | H S Narasiah | INC | 15/05/1977 |
| Karnataka | T A Pai | INC | 21/03/1977 LS |
| Karnataka | Veerendra Patil | OTH |
| Madhya Pradesh | Nand Kishore Bhatt | INC |
| Madhya Pradesh | Vidyawati Chaturvedi | INC |
| Madhya Pradesh | Virendra Kumar Saklecha | OTH | res 26/06/1977 |
| Madhya Pradesh | Mahendra Bahadur Singh | INC |
| Madhya Pradesh | Shankarlal Tiwari | INC |
| Maharashtra | Sushila S Adivarekar | INC |
| Maharashtra | D Y Pawar | INC |
| Maharashtra | Gulabrao Patil | INC |
| Maharashtra | N H Kumbhare | INC |
| Maharashtra | Vinaykumar R Parashar | INC |
| Maharashtra | Dr M R Vyas | INC |
| Maharashtra | Sikandar Ali Wajd | INC |
| Manipur | Salam Tombi | OTH | res 04/04/1974 |
| Meghalaya | Showaless K Shilla | OTH | |
| Mizoram | Lalbuaia | INC |
| Nominated | Abraham Abu | NOM | |
| Nominated | Premantha Nath Bisi | NOM |
| Nominated | C. K. Daphtary | NOM |
| Nominated | Tanvir Habib | NOM |
| Orissa | Lokanath Misra | JAN |
| Orissa | Brahmananda Panda | OTH |
| Orissa | C P Majhi | INC |
| Orissa | Saraswati Pradhan | INC |
| Punjab | Mohan Singh | INC |
| Punjab | Sita Devi | INC | dea 22/03/1974 |
| Rajasthan | Jamnalal Berwa | INC |
| Rajasthan | Lakshmi Kumari Chundawat | INC |
| Rajasthan | Ganesh Lal Mali | INC |
| Tamil Nadu | M S Abdul Khader | AIADMK | |
| Tamil Nadu | V.V. Swaminathan | AIADMK |
| Tamil Nadu | M Kamalanathan | DMK |
| Tamil Nadu | M C Balan | AIADMK |
| Tamil Nadu | K A Krishnaswamy | AIADMK |
| Tamil Nadu | A K Rafaye | MI |
| Uttar Pradesh | Dr Z A Ahmad | CPI | |
| Uttar Pradesh | Sukhdev Prasad | INC |
| Uttar Pradesh | Prof Saiyid Nurul Hasan | INC |
| Uttar Pradesh | Dr M M S Siddhu | INC |
| Uttar Pradesh | Mohan Singh Oberoi | OTH |
| Uttar Pradesh | Banarsi Das | JAN | res 28/06/1977 |
| Uttar Pradesh | Yashpal Kapur | INC |
| Uttar Pradesh | Harsh Deo Malaviya | INC |
| Uttar Pradesh | V R Mohan | IND | dea 28/01/1973 |
| Uttar Pradesh | Anand Narain Mulla | INC |
| Uttar Pradesh | Dr V B Singh | INC |
| Uttar Pradesh | Omprakash Tyagi | JAN | 21/03/1977 |
| West Bengal | Sardar Ali Amjad | INC | |
| West Bengal | Dr Rajat Kumar Chakrabarti | INC |
| West Bengal | Krishna Bahadur Chettri | INC | 22/03/1977 |
| West Bengal | Kali Mukherjee | INC |
| West Bengal | Sanat Kumar Raha | CPI |

## Bye-elections

The following bye elections were held in the year 1972.
State - Member - Party
* OR - K P Singh Deo - OTH ( ele 28/01/1972 term till 1976 )
* AP - Nuthalapati Joseph - INC ( ele 30/03/1972 term till 1974 )
* MH - Saroj Khaparde - INC ( ele 03/04/1972 term till 1974 )
* BH - Bhola Paswan Shastri - INC ( ele 31/05/1972 term till 1976 )
* Assam - Mahendramohan Chaudhury - INC ( ele 19/06/1956 term till 1974 )
* AP - M R Krishna - INC ( ele 19/07/1972 term till 1976 )