The 19 members of the Rajya Sabha to retire in April will include five from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and four from the Congress. This will reduce the strength of Congress in Rajya Sabha from 34 to 28 while that of BJP will come down from 97 to 92. At present, BJP It is the single largest party in the 245-member House with 237 members at present.
According to a report in Hindustan Times, Livemint’s sister publication, Congress MP Anand Sharma, former Defense Minister AK Antony, Pratap Singh Bajwa, Shamsher Singh Dullo (Punjab), Ripun Bora and Rani Nara (Assam) are set to retire. Upper House of Parliament this year.
BJP’s Subramanian Swamy, actor-turned-politician Roopa Ganguly, journalist Swapan Dasgupta and actor Suresh Gopi will retire from the Rajya Sabha. Boxer Mary Kom and economist Narendra Jadhav are the other nominated members to retire. The term of Shwet Malik (Punjab) of BJP is also coming to an end.
other legislators who will be retiring In April are MV Shreyams Kumar (Kerala), Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa of the Democratic Janata Dal, Naresh Gujral of the Shiromani Akali Dal from Punjab, K Soma Prasad (Kerala) of the Communist Party of India, and Jharna Das Baidya (Tripura). According to the daily, there will be five vacancies from the Rajya Sabha in the House.
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