Rajya Sabha members from West Bengal

The Rajya Sabha (meaning the "Council of States") is the upper house of the Parliament of India. West Bengal elects 16 seats and they are indirectly elected by the state legislators of West Bengal. The number of seats, allocated to the party, are determined by the amount of seats, a party possesses during nomination and the party nominates a member to be voted on. Elections in within the state legislatures are held using Single transferable vote with proportional representation.[1]

Current members (2014)

Taking effect from April 2.[2] Source: NDTV 24x7.[3]

No Name Party
# Mithun Chakraborty All India Trinamool Congress
# Jogen Chowdhury All India Trinamool Congress
# Ahmed Hassan Imran All India Trinamool Congress
# KD Singh All India Trinamool Congress
# Ritabrata Banerjee Communist Party of India (Marxist)

Members as of 2016

Source:Parliament of India (Rajya Sabha)[4]

No Name Party
1 Dola Sen All India Trinamool Congress
2 Derek O Brien All India Trinamool Congress
3 Sukhendu Sekhar Roy All India Trinamool Congress
4 Debendranath Bandyopadhyay All India Trinamool Congress
5 Sitaram Yechury Communist Party of India (Marxist)
6 Pradip Bhattacharya Indian National Congress
7 Mukul Roy All India Trinamool Congress
8 Nadimul Haque All India Trinamool Congress
9 Kunal Ghosh All India Trinamool Congress (Suspended)
10 Vivek Gupta All India Trinamool Congress
11 Tapan Kumar Sen Communist Party of India (Marxist)
12 Mithun Chakraborty All India Trinamool Congress
13 Jogen Chowdhury All India Trinamool Congress
14 K.D. Singh All India Trinamool Congress
15 Ahmed Hassan Imran All India Trinamool Congress
16 Ritabrata Banerjee Communist Party of India (Marxist)

References

  1. ↑ "Composition of Rajya Sabha - Rajya Sabha At Work" (PDF). rajyasabha.nic.in. Rajya Sabha Secretariat, New Delhi. Retrieved 28 December 2015.
  2. ↑ "Editor of pro-TMC ‘Muslim’ Bengali daily ‘Kalom’ Ahmed Hassan Imran nominated to Rajya Sabha". Two Cicles. Retrieved 8 February 2014.
  3. ↑ "Trinamool Congress wins four Rajya Sabha seats in West Bengal; Congress bags two in Assam, three in Andhra Pradesh". NDTV. Retrieved 8 February 2014.
  4. ↑ "MEMBERS OF RAJYA SABHA (wb) (STATE WISE LIST)". Rajya Sabha. Retrieved 8 February 2014.

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