1954 Rajya Sabha elections

Rajya Sabha elections were held in 1954, to elect members of the Rajya Sabha, Indian Parliament's upper chamber. [1]

1954 Rajya Sabha elections

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80 (of 225 seats) in the Rajya Sabha
113 seats seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party
 
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CPI
Leader Jawaharlal Nehru
Party INC CPI
Seats won 173 10
Seat change Increase 4 Increase 1
Percentage 76.89% 4.44%
Swing Increase 2.77% Increase 0.49%

Elections

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Elections were held in 1954 to elect members from various states. The list is incomplete.

Members elected

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The following members are elected in the elections held in 1954. They are members for the term 1952-54 by luck as decided in 1952 and retire in year 1954, except in case of the resignation or death before the term.

State - Member - Party

Rajya Sabha members for term 1954-1960
State Member Name Party Remark
Andhra Makineni Basavapunnaiah CPI R
Andhra Galib Shaik INC ( res. 12/07/1958 )
Andhra Akbar Ali Khan INC
Andhra A Satyanarayana Raju INC
Andhra J V K VallabhRao CPI
Ajmer and Coorg K C Karumbaya INC ( term till 1956 )
Assam Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed INC Res. 25/03/1957
Assam Bedavati Buragohain INC
Bihar Bodra Theodore JMM
Bihar Ramdhari Singh Dinkar INC
Bihar Kailash Bihari Lall INC Dea. 19/03/1960
Bihar Mahesh Saran INC
Bihar Lakshmi N. Menon INC
Bihar Dr Purna Chanda Mitra INC Dea. 23/08/1959
Bihar Rajendra Pratap Sinha IND
Bombay Abid Ali Jaferbhai INC ( term till 1958 )
Bombay Violet Alva INC
Bombay R V Dangre INC
Bombay N B Deshmukh OTH
Bombay Bhalchandra M Gupte INC
Bombay Shreyans Prasad Jain INC ( term till 1958 )
Bombay Premji T Leuva INC
Bombay Devkinandan Narayan INC
Bombay Chandulal P Parikh INC ( term till 1958 )
Hyderabad V Prasad Rao CPI
Jammu & Kashmir Trilochan Dutt INC
Kutch Lakhamshi Lavji INC
Madhya Bharat Dr Raghubir Sinh INC
Madhya Bharat Gopikrishna Vijaivargiya INC
Madhya Pradesh R P Dube INC
Madhya Pradesh Kazi Syed Karimuddin INC ( term till 1958 )
Madhya Pradesh Ratanlal K. Malviya INC
Madhya Pradesh Thakur Bhannu Pratap Singh INC
Madras N Gopalswami Ayyangar INC
Madras K S Hegde INC res. 21/08/1957
Madras E. K. Imbichi Bava CPI
Madras T V Kamalaswamy INC
Madras K Madhav Menon INC
Madras P S Rajgopal Naidu INC
Madras Parvathi Krishnan OTH 12/03/1957
Madras T Bhaskar Rao INC
Madras Dr P Subbarayan INC 04/03/1957
Manipur & Tripura Ng. Tompok Singh INC
Mysore H C Dasappa INC Res. 25/03/1957 2LS
Mysore K Chengalaraya Reddy INC 18/03/1957
Mysore Raghvendra Rao INC
Nominated Prof A R Wadia NOM
Nominated Prof Satyendra Nath Bose NOM Res.02/07/1959
Nominated Prithviraj Kapoor NOM
Nominated Moturi Satyanarayana NOM.
Orissa Prafulla Chandra Banj Deo OTH Death 05/03/1959
Orissa Bishwanath Das INC
Orissa S Panigrahi INC
Punjab Dr Anup Singh INC
Punjab Jathedar Udham Singh Nagoke INC
Punjab M H S Nihal Singh INC
P E P S U Sardar Raghbir Singh INC
Rajasthan Barkatullah Khan INC Res. 25/03/1957
Rajasthan Adiyendra INC
Rajasthan Vijay Singh INC
Saurashtra Dr D H Variava INC
Travancore & Cochin K Udayabhau Bharti INC term till 1958
Travancore & Cochin N C Sekhar INC
Uttar Pradesh Amarnath Agarwal INC
Uttar Pradesh Amolakh Chand INC
Uttar Pradesh Ram Chandra Gupta INC
Uttar Pradesh Ahmed Syed Khan INC
Uttar Pradesh M M Faruqi INC
Uttar Pradesh Narendra Deva OTH Death 20/02/1956
Uttar Pradesh Brij Bihari Sharma INC
Uttar Pradesh Lal Bahadur Shastri INC Res 13/03/1957 -2LS
Uttar Pradesh Bapu Gopinath Singh INC
Uttar Pradesh Sumat Prasad INC 12/03/1957 - 2LS
Vindyachal Pradesh Krishna Kumari INC
Vindyachal Pradesh Awadhesh Pratap Singh INC
West Bengal Charu Chandra Biswas INC
West Bengal Rajpat Singh Doogar INC
West Bengal Nalinaskha Dutt INC
West Bengal Abdul Razzak Khan CPI
West Bengal Suresh Chandra Majumdar INC Death 12/08/1954

Bye-elections

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The following bye elections were held in the year 1954.

  1. Andhra - B V Gurumoorthy - INC ( elec 15/02/1954 term till 1956 )
  2. Bombay - Narayan K Daga - INC ( elec 23/04/1954 term till 1958 )
  3. West Bengal - Mriganka M Sur - INC ( elec 13/09/1954 term till 1960 )

References

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  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.