1978 Rajya Sabha elections

Rajya Sabha elections were held in 1978, to elect members of the Rajya Sabha, Indian Parliament's upper chamber. [1]

Elections

Elections were held in 1978 to elect members from various states. The list is incomplete.

Members elected

The following members are elected in the elections held in 1978. They are members for the term 1978-84 and retire in year 1978, except in case of the resignation or death before the term.

State - Member - Party

Rajya Sabha members for term 1978-1984

State	Member Name	Party	Remark
Assam	Dinesh Goswami	INC
Assam	Robin Kakati	INC
Assam	Ajit Kumar Sharma	JAN
Andhra Pradesh	B. Satyanarayan Reddy	JAN
Andhra Pradesh	Buddha Priya Maurya	INC
Andhra Pradesh	N.P. Chengalraya Naidu	INC
Andhra Pradesh	Ghouse Mohiuddin Sheikh	INC
Andhra Pradesh	Chadalavada Venkatrao	INC	dea 05/01/1981
Arunachal Pradesh	T Anjiah	INC	Res 19/02/1981
Arunachal Pradesh	Ratan Tama	INC
Bihar	Dayanand Sahay	INC
Bihar	Anand Prasad Sharma	INC	res 19/02/1983
Bihar	Yogendra Sharma	CPI
Bihar	J K P N Singh	INC
Bihar	Pranab Chatterjee	OTH	dea 02/06/1979
Bihar	Ram Lakhan Prasad Gupta	BJP
Bihar	Shiv Chandra Jha	BJP
Delhi	Jagannathrao Joshi	JAN
Gujarat	Ibrahim Kalaniya	INC
Gujarat	Piloo Modi	JAN	dea 29/01/1983
Gujarat	Ghanshyambhai Oza	JAN
Gujarat	Manubhai Patel	JD
Haryana	Sujan Singh	INC	res 31/12/1982
Haryana	Dr Sarup Singh	LD
Himachal Pradesh	Mohinder Kaur	JAN
Jammu & Kashmir	Khawaja Mubarak Shah	JKNC	res 10/01/1980 LS
Karnataka	Satchidananda	INC
Karnataka	Ramakrishna Hegde	JP	res 23/05/1983 CM, KA
Karnataka	Maqsood Ali Khan	INC
Karnataka	H R Basavaraj	INC	res 17/01/1980
Madhya Pradesh	Manhar Bhagatram	INC
Madhya Pradesh	Vijaya Raje Scindia	BJP
Madhya Pradesh	Baleshwar Dayal	JAN
Madhya Pradesh	Dr Bhai Mahavir	JAN
Madhya Pradesh	Ladli Mohan Nigam	JAN
Madhya Pradesh	Jamuna Devi	OTH
Maharashtra	B.D. Khobragade	RPI
Maharashtra	N.K.P. Salve	INC
Maharashtra	A. G. Kulkarni	INC
Maharashtra	Sushila S Adivarekar	INC
Maharashtra	Sadasiv Bagaitkar	JAN	dea 05/12/1983
Maharashtra	Ganpat Hiralal Bhagat	IND
Maharashtra	Dr Rafiq Zakaria	INC
Manipur & Tripura	Ng. Tompok Singh	INC
Meghalaya	Alexander Warjri	IND
Mizoram	Lalsawia	IND
Nominated	Dr M S Adiseshiah	NOM
Nominated	Fathema Ismail	NOM
Nominated	Pandurang D Jadhav	NOM
Nominated	Bhagwati Charan Varma	NOM	dea 05/10/1981
Orissa	Bhabani Charan Pattanayak	INC
Orissa	Surendra Mohanty	INC
Orissa	Dhaneswar Majhi	INC
Orissa	Harekrushna Mallick	JD
Punjab	Dr Rajinder Kaur	SAD
Punjab	Harkishan Singh Surjeet	CPM
Rajasthan	Bhim Raj	INC
Rajasthan	Hari Shankar Bhabhra	BJP
Rajasthan	Radheshyam R Murarka	JAN
Tamil Nadu	V. Gopalsamy	DMK
Tamil Nadu	V.V. Swaminathan	AIADMK	res 19/06/1980
Tamil Nadu	M Moses	INC
Tamil Nadu	Dr Sathiavani Muthu	INC
Tamil Nadu	Era Seziyan	JAN
Tamil Nadu	V. Venka	DMK
Uttar Pradesh	Kamlapati Tripathi	INC	res 08/01/1980 LS
Uttar Pradesh	Narendra Singh	JAN
Uttar Pradesh	Jagdish Prasad Mathur	BJP
Uttar Pradesh	Kalraj Mishra	BJP
Uttar Pradesh	Dr M M S Siddhu	BJP
Uttar Pradesh	G C Bhattacharya	LD
Uttar Pradesh	Lakhan Singh	JAN
Uttar Pradesh	K C Pant	INC
Uttar Pradesh	Rameshwar Singh	LD
Uttar Pradesh	Abdul Rehman Sheikh	JAN
Uttar Pradesh	Surendra Mohan	JAN
West Bengal	Amarprosad Chakraborty	FB
West Bengal	Kanak Mukherjee	CPM
West Bengal	Prof Saurin Bhattacharjee	RSP
West Bengal	Ananda Pathak	CPM	09/01/1980
West Bengal	Syed Shahedullah	CPM

Bye-elections

The following bye elections were held in the year 1978.

State - Member - Party

1. Uttar Pradesh - Shiva Nandan Singh - JAN ( ele 20/03/1978 term till 1980 )
2. Madhya Pradesh - B Jamuna Devi - OTH ( ele 10/04/1978 term till 1980 )
3. Maharashtra - Motiram Lahane - JAN ( ele 14/12/1978 term till 1980 )

References

1. "Alphabetical List Of Former Members Of Rajya Sabha Since 1952". Rajya Sabha Secretariat, New Delhi. Archived from the original on 14 February 2019. Retrieved 13 September 2017.