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2020 Rajya Sabha elections
2020 Rajya Sabha elections were the set of indirect elections by the members of State legislatures of India, to elect new members to fill vacancies in the Rajya Sabha – the upper house of the Parliament of India. The elections are held annually and throughout the year on an ad hoc basis. The elections in 2020 are for a total of 72 seats of which 55 of them were to be elected by March 26. The remaining were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Election Commission of India later announced all the elections for the remaining 24 Rajya Sabha seats were to be held on 19 June 2020.
On 12 June 2020, Election commission of India declared unopposed victory over 4 seats of Karnataka and 1 seat of Arunachal Pradesh. Leaving behind 19 seats to go for elections on 19 June 2020.
On 2 November 2020, Election commission of India declared unopposed victory over 10 seats of Uttar Pradesh and 1 seat of Uttarakhand.
Aside from automatic elections, unforeseen vacancies caused by members' resignation, death or disqualification, are unless a few months before the expected natural expiry of the term of tenure, filled via by-elections, which for the Rajya Sabha often take some months to organise.
On 20 January 2020 Birender Singh Resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from Haryana
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Former MP
Party
Date of Vacancy
Elected MP
Party
Term start
Term end
1
Birender Singh
BJP
20-Jan-2020
Dushyant Kumar Gautam
BJP
16-Mar-2020
01-Aug-2022
On 8 October 2020, Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan died.
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Former MP
Party
Date of Vacancy
Elected MP
Party
Term start
Term end
1
Ram Vilas Paswan
LJP
08-Oct-2020
Sushil Kumar Modi
BJP
07-Dec-2020
02-Apr-2024
On 27 March 2020 Beni Prasad Verma died.
On 1 August 2020 Amar Singh died.
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Former MP
Party
Date of Vacancy
Elected MP
Party
Term start
Term end
1
Beni Prasad Verma
SP
27-Mar-2020
Jai Prakash Nishad
BJP
17-Aug-2020
04-Jul-2022
2
Amar Singh
IND
01-Aug-2020
Syed Zafar Islam
BJP
11-Sep-2020
04-Jul-2022
On 28 May 2020 Veerendra Kumar died.
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Former MP
Party
Date of Vacancy
Elected MP
Party
Term start
Term end
M. P. Veerendra Kumar
IND
28-May-2020
M. V. Shreyams Kumar
LJD
24-Aug-2020
02-Apr-2022
On 17 September 2020 Ashok Gasti died.
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Former MP
Party
Date of Vacancy
Elected MP
Party
Term start
Term end
Ashok Gasti
BJP
17-Sep-2020
K. Narayan
BJP
24-Nov-2020
25-Jun-2026
Note:
Listed According Date Of Retirement
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Previous MP
Party
Term end
Nominated MP
Party
Term start
Reference
K. T. S. Tulsi
Nominated
25-Feb-2020
Ranjan Gogoi
Nominated
16-Mar-2020
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