title: 1996 Rajya Sabha elections
text: # 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
  