Elections for 57 Rajya Sabha seats from 15 seats will be held on June 10 due to the retirement of members on different dates between June and August. Some of the prominent leaders retiring are Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Congress leaders Ambika Soni, Jairam Ramesh and Kapil Sibal, and BSP's Satish Chandra Misra.
Members are retiring between June 21 and August 1.
While 11 seats are falling vacant in Uttar Pradesh, six members each are retiring from Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra, five from Bihar and four each from Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Karnataka.
Most of the new members who get elected are likely to vote in the President's election, due sometime in July.
Here's the list of some prominent Rajya Sabha MPs who didn't get tickets this time:
BJP
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
Prakash Javadekar
Suresh Prabhu
MJ Akbar
OP Mathur
Dushyant Gautam
Vinay Sahastrabuddhe
Shiv Pratap Shukla
Congress
Ghulam Nab Azad
Anand Sharma
Ambika Soni
Samajwadi Party
Sanjay Seth
Syed Zafar Islam
DMK
TKS Elangovan
RJD
Sharad Yadav
JD(U)
RCP Singh
First Published: May 31, 2022 4:42 PM IST
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