List of Rajya Sabha members from West Bengal explained

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 number of seats a party possesses during nomination and the party nominates a member to be voted on. Elections within the state legislatures are held using Single transferable vote with proportional representation.^[1]

Current members

Keys:

	Name	Party		Term Start	Term End
1	Derek O'Brien		19-Aug-2023	18-Aug-2029
2	Sukhendu Shekhar Roy		19-Aug-2023	18-Aug-2029
3	Dola Sen		19-Aug-2023	18-Aug-2029
4	Samirul Islam		19-Aug-2023	18-Aug-2029
5	Prakash Chik Baraik		19-Aug-2023	18-Aug-2029
6	Subrata Bakshi		03-Apr-2020	02-Apr-2026
7	Mausam Noor		03-Apr-2020	02-Apr-2026
8	Jawhar Sircar		03-Aug-2021	02-Apr-2026
9	Saket Gokhale		30-Jul-2023	02-Apr-2026
10	Sagarika Ghose		03-Apr-2024	02-Apr-2030
11	Sushmita Dev		03-Apr-2024	02-Apr-2030
12	Ananta Maharaj		19-Aug-2023	18-Aug-2029
13	Samik Bhattacharya		03-Apr-2024	02-Apr-2030
14	Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya		03-Apr-2020	02-Apr-2026

Chronological list of all Rajya Sabha members from West Bengal state

represents current members

Name	Party		Term start	Term end	Term(s)	Notes
Nadimul Haque		03-Apr-2024	02-Apr-2030	3	^[2]
Mamata Bala Thakur		03-Apr-2024	02-Apr-2030	1
Sagarika Ghose		03-Apr-2024	02-Apr-2030	1
Sushmita Dev		03-Apr-2024	02-Apr-2030	2
Samik Bhattacharya		03-Apr-2024	02-Apr-2030	1
Derek O'Brien		19-Aug-2023	18-Aug-2029	3
Sukhendu Sekhar Roy		19-Aug-2023	18-Aug-2029	3
Dola Sen		19-Aug-2023	18-Aug-2029	3
Samirul Islam		19-Aug-2023	18-Aug-2029	1
Prakash Chik Baraik		19-Aug-2023	18-Aug-2029	1
Anant Maharaj		19-Aug-2023	18-Aug-2029	1
Saket Gokhale		18-Jul-2023	02-Apr-2026	1	bye - resignation of Luizinho Faleiro^[3]
Luizinho Faleiro		24-Nov-2021	11-Apr-2023	1	resigned^[4] bye - resignation of Arpita Ghosh^[5]
Sushmita Dev		27-Sep-2021	18-Aug-2023	1	bye - resignation of Manas Bhunia^[6]
Jawhar Sircar		03-Aug-2021	02-Apr-2026	1	bye - resignation of Dinesh Trivedi^[7]
Dinesh Trivedi		03-Apr-2020	12-Feb-2021	2	resigned^[8]
Arpita Ghosh		03-Apr-2020	15-Sep-2021	1	resigned^[9]
Mausam Noor		03-Apr-2020	02-Apr-2026	1	^[10]
Subrata Bakshi		03-Apr-2020	02-Apr-2026	1
Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya		03-Apr-2020	02-Apr-2026	1
Nadimul Haque		03-Apr-2018	02-Apr-2024	2
Abir Biswas		03-Apr-2018	02-Apr-2024	1
Santunu Sen		03-Apr-2018	02-Apr-2024	1
Subhasish Chakraborty		03-Apr-2018	02-Apr-2024	1
Abhishek Singhvi		03-Apr-2018	02-Apr-2024	1
Derek O'Brien		19-Aug-2017	18-Aug-2023	2
Sukhendu Sekhar Roy		19-Aug-2017	18-Aug-2023	2
Dola Sen		19-Aug-2017	18-Aug-2023	2
Shanta Chhetri		19-Aug-2017	18-Aug-2023	1
Manas Bhunia		19-Aug-2017	02-May-2021	1	elected to Sabang Assembly
Pradip Bhattacharya		19-Aug-2017	18-Aug-2023	2
Manish Gupta		14-Mar-2017	02-Apr-2020	1	bye - resignation of Mithun Chakraborty
Dola Sen		14-Mar-2015	18-Aug-2017	1	bye - resignation of Srinjoy Bose
Mithun Chakraborty		03-Apr-2014	26-Dec-2016	1	resigned^[11]
Jogen Chowdhury		03-Apr-2014	02-Apr-2020	1	^[12]
Ahmed Hassan Imran		03-Apr-2014	02-Apr-2020	1
Kanwar Deep Singh		03-Apr-2014	02-Apr-2020	1
Ritabrata Banerjee		03-Apr-2014	02-Apr-2020	1
Kunal Ghosh		03-Apr-2012	02-Apr-2018	1
Vivek Gupta		03-Apr-2012	02-Apr-2018	1
Nadimul Haque		03-Apr-2012	02-Apr-2018	1
Mukul Roy		03-Apr-2012	11-Oct-2017	2	resigned^[13]
Tapan Kumar Sen		03-Apr-2012	02-Apr-2018	2
Sukhendu Sekhar Roy		19-Aug-2011	18-Aug-2017	1
Derek O'Brien		19-Aug-2011	18-Aug-2017	1
Debabrata Bandyopadhyay		19-Aug-2011	18-Aug-2017	1
Srinjoy Bose		19-Aug-2011	05-Feb-2015	1	resigned^[14]
Pradip Bhattacharya		19-Aug-2011	18-Aug-2017	1
Sitaram Yechury		19-Aug-2011	18-Aug-2017	2
Barun Mukherji		18-Nov-2008	02-Apr-2014	2	bye - resignation of Debabrata Biswas
Shyamal Chakraborty		03-Apr-2008	02-Apr-2014	1
Prasanta Chatterjee		03-Apr-2008	02-Apr-2014	2
Tarini Kanta Roy		03-Apr-2008	02-Apr-2014	2
Debabrata Biswas		03-Apr-2008	23-Sep-2008	4	resigned
Ahmed Saeed Malihabadi		03-Apr-2008	02-Apr-2014	1
R. C. Singh		25-Jun-2008	02-Apr-2012	1	bye - resignation of Barun Mukherji
Mohammed Amin		17-May-2007	18-Aug-2011	2	bye - death of Chittabrata Majumdar
Moinul Hassan		03-Apr-2006	02-Apr-2012	1
Saman Pathak		03-Apr-2006	02-Apr-2012	1
Tapan Kumar Sen		03-Apr-2006	02-Apr-2012	1
Barun Mukherji		03-Apr-2006	06-May-2008	1	resigned
Mukul Roy		03-Apr-2006	02-Apr-2012	1
Brinda Karat		19-Aug-2005	18-Aug-2011	1
Sitaram Yechury		19-Aug-2005	18-Aug-2011	1
Chittabrata Majumdar		19-Aug-2005	20-Feb-2007	2	expired^[15]
Abani Roy		19-Aug-2005	18-Aug-2011	3
Arjun Kumar Sengupta		19-Aug-2005	26-Sep-2010	1	expired^[16]
Swapan Sadhan Bose		19-Aug-2005	18-Aug-2011	1
Chittabrata Majumdar		30-Jun-2004	18-Aug-2005	1	bye - resignation of Pranab Mukherjee
Sheikh Khabir Uddin Ahmed		03-Apr-2002	02-Apr-2008	1
Prasanta Chatterjee		03-Apr-2002	02-Apr-2008	1
Tarini Kanta Roy		03-Apr-2002	02-Apr-2008	1
Debabrata Biswas		03-Apr-2002	02-Apr-2008	3
Dinesh Trivedi		03-Apr-2002	02-Apr-2008	1
Biplab Dasgupta		03-Apr-2000	17-Jul-2005	2	expired
Nilotpal Basu		03-Apr-2000	02-Apr-2006	2
Dipankar Mukherjee		03-Apr-2000	02-Apr-2006	2
Manoj Bhattacharya		03-Apr-2000	02-Apr-2006	1
Jayanta Bhattacharya		03-Apr-2000	02-Apr-2006	1
Sarla Maheshwari		19-Aug-1999	18-Aug-2005	2
Chandrakala Pandey		19-Aug-1999	18-Aug-2005	2
Jibon Roy		19-Aug-1999	18-Aug-2005	2
Abani Roy		19-Aug-1999	18-Aug-2005	2
Shankar Roychowdhury		19-Aug-1999	18-Aug-2005	1
Pranab Mukherjee		19-Aug-1999	13-May-2004	4	elected to Jangipur Lok Sabha
Abani Roy		24-Mar-1998	18-Aug-1999	1	bye - death of Tridib Chaudhuri
Bharati Ray		03-Apr-1996	02-Apr-2002	1
Dawa Lama		03-Apr-1996	02-Apr-2002	1
Mohammed Salim		03-Apr-1996	10-May-2001	2	elected to Entally Assembly
Bratin Sengupta		03-Apr-1996	02-Apr-2002	1
Debabrata Biswas		03-Apr-1996	02-Apr-2002	2
Nilotpal Basu		03-Apr-1994	02-Apr-2000	1
Biplab Dasgupta		03-Apr-1994	02-Apr-2000	1
Dipankar Mukherjee		03-Apr-1994	02-Apr-2000	1
Gurudas Dasgupta		03-Apr-1994	02-Apr-2000	3
Joyanta Ray		03-Apr-1994	02-Apr-2000	1
Ram Narayan Goswami		19-Aug-1993	18-Aug-1999	3
Ashok Mitra		19-Aug-1993	18-Aug-1999	1
Chandrakala Pandey		19-Aug-1993	18-Aug-1999	1
Jibon Roy		19-Aug-1993	18-Aug-1999	1
Tridib Chaudhuri		19-Aug-1993	21-Dec-1997	2	expired
Pranab Mukherjee		19-Aug-1993	18-Aug-1999	3
Sarla Maheshwari		03-Apr-1990	02-Apr-1996	1
Ratna Bahadur Rai		03-Apr-1990	02-Apr-1996	2
Mohammed Salim		03-Apr-1990	02-Apr-1996	1
Debabrata Biswas		03-Apr-1990	02-Apr-1996	1
Ashoke Kumar Sen		03-Apr-1990	02-Apr-1996	1
Ratna Bahadur Rai		23-Mar-1989	02-Apr-1990	1	bye - death of T. S. Gurung
Mohammed Amin		03-Apr-1988	02-Apr-1994	1
Ashis Sen		03-Apr-1988	02-Apr-1994	1
Sukomal Sen		03-Apr-1988	02-Apr-1994	2
Gurudas Dasgupta		03-Apr-1988	02-Apr-1994	2
Saurin Bhattacharjee		03-Apr-1988	02-Apr-1994	2
Ram Narayan Goswami		10-Jul-1987	09-Jul-1993	2
Samar Mukherjee		10-Jul-1987	09-Jul-1993	2
Ramendra Kumar Podder		10-Jul-1987	09-Jul-1993	2
Sunil Basuray		10-Jul-1987	09-Jul-1993	1
Dipen Ghosh		10-Jul-1987	09-Jul-1993	2
Tridib Chaudhuri		10-Jul-1987	09-Jul-1993	1
Samar Mukherjee		29-Dec-1986	09-Jul-1987	1	bye -
Ram Narayan Goswami		22-Oct-1986	09-Jul-1987	1	bye - death of Sankar Prasad Mitra
T. S. Gurung		14-Mar-1986	13-Jan-1989	1	expiredbye - resignation of Badri Narayan Pradhan
Chitta Basu		02-Dec-1985	27-Nov-1989	2	elected to Barasat Lok Sabhabye - death of Amar Prasad Chakraborty
Gurudas Dasgupta		12-Mar-1985	02-Apr-1988	1	bye - death of Kalyan Roy
Ramendra Kumar Podder		12-Mar-1985	09-Jul-1987	1	bye - death of Arabinda Ghosh
Shantimoy Ghosh		18-Sep-1984	09-Jul-1987	1	bye - death of Santosh Mitra
Kanak Mukherjee		03-Apr-1984	02-Apr-1990	2
Mostafa Bin Qausem		03-Apr-1984	02-Apr-1990	1
Badri Narayan Pradhan		03-Apr-1984	22-Jan-1986	1	resigned
Amar Prasad Chakraborty		03-Apr-1984	27-Oct-1985	2	expired
Deba Prasad Ray		03-Apr-1984	02-Apr-1990	1
Nepaldev Bhattacharjee		03-Apr-1982	02-Apr-1988	2
Nirmal Chatterjee		03-Apr-1982	02-Apr-1988	1
Sukomal Sen		03-Apr-1982	02-Apr-1988	1
Kalyan Roy		03-Apr-1982	31-Jan-1985	3	expired
Ramkrishna Mazumder		03-Apr-1982	02-Apr-1988	1
Nepaldev Bhattacharjee		28-Sep-1981	02-Apr-1982	1	bye - resignation of Bhupesh Gupta
Debendra Nath Barman		10-Jul-1981	09-Jul-1987	1
Arabinda Ghosh		10-Jul-1981	17-Jan-1985	1	expired
Santosh Mitra		10-Jul-1981	23-Apr-1984	1	expired
Dipen Ghosh		10-Jul-1981	09-Jul-1987	1
Makhan Paul		10-Jul-1981	09-Jul-1987	1
Sankar Prasad Mitra		10-Jul-1981	09-Aug-1986	1	expired
Sangdopal Lepcha		11-Mar-1980	02-Apr-1984	1	bye - resignation of Ananda Pathak
Ananda Pathak		03-Apr-1978	09-Jan-1980	2	elected to Darjeeling Lok Sabha
Syed Shahedullah		03-Apr-1978	02-Apr-1984	1
Kanak Mukherjee		03-Apr-1978	02-Apr-1984	1
Saurin Bhattacharjee		03-Apr-1978	02-Apr-1984	1
Amar Prasad Chakraborty		03-Apr-1978	02-Apr-1984	1
Ananda Pathak		13-Jul-1977	02-Apr-1978	1	bye - resignation of Krishna Bahadur Chhetri
Sankar Ghose		03-Apr-1976	02-Apr-1982	1
Prasenjit Barman		03-Apr-1976	02-Apr-1982	1
Phanindra Nath Hansda		03-Apr-1976	02-Apr-1982	1
Purabi Mukhopadhyay		03-Apr-1976	02-Apr-1982	2
Bhupesh Gupta		03-Apr-1976	06-Aug-1981	5	expired
Pranab Mukherjee		10-Jul-1975	09-Jul-1981	2
Jaharlal Banerjee		10-Jul-1975	09-Jul-1981	1
Pratima Bose		10-Jul-1975	09-Jul-1981	1
D. P. Chattopadhyaya		10-Jul-1975	09-Jul-1981	2
Ahmad Hossain Mondal		10-Jul-1975	09-Jul-1981	1
Kalyan Roy		10-Jul-1975	09-Jul-1981	2
Sardar Amjad Ali		03-Apr-1972	02-Apr-1978	1
Rajat Kumar Chakrabarti		03-Apr-1972	02-Apr-1978	1
Krishna Bahadur Chhetri		03-Apr-1972	22-Mar-1977	1	elected to Darjeeling Lok Sabha
Kali Mukherjee		03-Apr-1972	02-Apr-1978	1
Sanat Kumar Raha		03-Apr-1972	02-Apr-1978	1
Salil Kumar Ganguli		03-Apr-1970	02-Apr-1976	1
Sasankasekhar Sanyal		03-Apr-1970	02-Apr-1976	1
Dwijendralal Sen Gupta		03-Apr-1970	02-Apr-1976	2
Bhupesh Gupta		03-Apr-1970	02-Apr-1976	4
Purabi Mukhopadhyay		03-Apr-1970	02-Apr-1976	1
Monoranjan Roy		10-Jul-1969	09-Jul-1975	1
Niren Ghosh		10-Jul-1969	09-Jul-1975	2
Kalyan Roy		10-Jul-1969	09-Jul-1975	1
Suhrid Mullick Chowdhury		10-Jul-1969	09-Jul-1975	1
D. P. Chattopadhyaya		10-Jul-1969	09-Jul-1975	1
Pranab Mukherjee		10-Jul-1969	09-Jul-1975	1
Mriganka Mohan Sur		03-Apr-1966	02-Apr-1972	3
Biren Roy		03-Apr-1966	02-Apr-1972	2
Rajpat Singh Doogar		03-Apr-1966	02-Apr-1972	4
Chitta Basu		03-Apr-1966	02-Apr-1972	1
Arun Prakash Chatterjee		03-Apr-1966	02-Apr-1972	1
Debabrata Mookerjee		04-Nov-1965	02-Apr-1968	1	bye - resignation of Niharranjan Ray
Phulrenu Guha		03-Apr-1964	02-Apr-1970	1
Muhammad Ishaque		03-Apr-1964	02-Apr-1970	2
Satyendra Prosad Ray		03-Apr-1964	02-Apr-1970	3
Dwijendralal Sen Gupta		03-Apr-1964	02-Apr-1970	1
Bhupesh Gupta		03-Apr-1964	02-Apr-1970	3
Ram Kumar Bhuwalka		09-Sep-1963	02-Apr-1968	1	bye - death of Pannalal Saraogi
Nikunja Behari Maiti		25-Apr-1962	02-Apr-1966	1	bye - resignation of Abha Maiti
Ram Prasanna Ray		03-Apr-1962	02-Apr-1968	1
Niharranjan Ray		03-Apr-1962	01-Jun-1965	2	resigned
Pannalal Saraogi		03-Apr-1962	13-Aug-1963	1	expired
Surendra Mohan Ghose		03-Apr-1962	02-Apr-1968	2
Niren Ghosh		03-Apr-1962	02-Apr-1968	1
Syed Nausher Ali		03-Apr-1962	02-Apr-1968	2
Muhammad Ishaque		29-Dec-1961	02-Apr-1964	1
Sudhir Ghosh		03-Apr-1960	02-Apr-1966	1
Abha Maiti		03-Apr-1960	04-Mar-1962	1	elected to West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Rajpat Singh Doogar		03-Apr-1960	02-Apr-1966	3
Mriganka Mohan Sur		03-Apr-1960	02-Apr-1966	2
Biren Roy		03-Apr-1960	02-Apr-1966	1
Ansaruddin Ahmed		03-Apr-1958	02-Apr-1964	1
Santosh Kumar Basu		03-Apr-1958	02-Apr-1964	2
Maya Devi Chettry		03-Apr-1958	02-Apr-1964	2
Bhupesh Gupta		03-Apr-1958	02-Apr-1964	2
Atindra Nath Bose		03-Apr-1958	27-Nov-1961	1	expired
Surendra Mohan Ghose		13-Dec-1956	02-Apr-1962	1
Mehr Chand Khanna		15-Dec-1956	26-Feb-1962	1	elected to New Delhi Lok Sabha
Prabhu Dayal Himatsingka		03-Apr-1956	02-Apr-1962	1
Humayun Kabir		03-Apr-1956	02-Apr-1962	1
Satyendra Prosad Ray		03-Apr-1956	02-Apr-1962	2
Satyapriya Banerjee		03-Apr-1956	23-Mar-1957	2	expired
Charu Chandra Biswas		03-Apr-1954	02-Apr-1960	2
Nalinaksha Dutt		03-Apr-1954	02-Apr-1960	2
Rajpat Singh Doogar		03-Apr-1954	02-Apr-1960	2
Suresh Chandra Majumdar		03-Apr-1954	12-Aug-1954	2	expired
Abdur Rezzak Khan		03-Apr-1954	02-Apr-1960	1
Niharranjan Ray		03-May-1957	02-Apr-1962	1
Santosh Kumar Basu		03-May-1957	02-Apr-1958	1
Sitaram Daga		03-May-1957	02-Apr-1958	1
Mriganka Mohan Sur		13-Sep-1954	02-Apr-1960	1
Charu Chandra Biswas		03-Apr-1952	02-Apr-1954	1
Nalinaksha Dutt		03-Apr-1952	02-Apr-1954	1
Rajpat Singh Doogar		03-Apr-1952	02-Apr-1954	1
Suresh Chandra Majumdar		03-Apr-1952	02-Apr-1954	1
Debaprasad Ghosh		03-Apr-1952	02-Apr-1954	1
Syed Nausher Ali		03-Apr-1952	02-Apr-1956	1
Satyendra Prosad Ray		03-Apr-1952	02-Apr-1956	1
Indra Bhushan Beed		03-Apr-1952	02-Apr-1956	1
Satyapriya Banerjee		03-Apr-1952	02-Apr-1956	1
Beni Prasad Agarwal		03-Apr-1952	02-Apr-1958	1
Maya Devi Chettry		03-Apr-1952	02-Apr-1958	1
Bimal Comar Ghosh		03-Apr-1952	21-Mar-1957	1	elected to Barrackpore Lok Sabha
Satyendra Mazumdar		03-Apr-1952	05-Apr-1957	1
Bhupesh Gupta		03-Apr-1952	02-Apr-1958	1

External links

• Rajya Sabha homepage hosted by the Indian government
• Rajya Sabha FAQ page hosted by the Indian government
• Nominated members list
• State wise list

Notes and References

1. Web site: Composition of Rajya Sabha - Rajya Sabha At Work. rajyasabha.nic.in. Rajya Sabha Secretariat, New Delhi. 28 December 2015. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160305020442/http://rajyasabha.nic.in/rsnew/rsat_work/chapter-2.pdf. 5 March 2016.
2. Web site: Trinamool, BJP field candidates from West Bengal for upcoming Rajya Sabha elections . India Today .
3. Web site: 2023-07-24 . Trinamul Congress's Saket Gokhale takes oath as Rajya Sabha member .
4. Web site: 2023-04-11 . Luizinho Faleiro resigns as Rajya Sabha MP, to quit Trinamool ‘soon’ . The Indian Express .
5. Web site: 2021-11-22 . TMC's Luizinho Faleiro Elected to Rajya Sabha Unopposed . News18 .
6. News: 2021-09-27 . Sushmita Dev elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha from West Bengal . The Hindu .
7. News: 2021-08-02 . TMC candidate Jawhar Sircar elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha . The Times of India .
8. News: 2021-02-12 . Trinamool Congress MP Dinesh Trivedi resigns from Rajya Sabha . The Times of India .
9. Web site: 2021-09-15 . TMC's Arpita Ghosh steps down as Rajya Sabha MP, Chairman Naidu accepts resignation . India Today .
10. News: 2020-03-18 . All 5 Rajya Sabha candidates in West Bengal elected unopposed . The Economic Times .
11. Web site: 2016-12-26 . Mithun Chakraborty resigns from Rajya Sabha citing health issues . Financialexpress .
12. Web site: Trinamool Congress wins four Rajya Sabha seats in West Bengal; Congress bags two in Assam, three in Andhra Pradesh . 8 February 2014 . NDTV.
13. News: 2017-10-11 . Rebel leader Mukul Roy quits Trinamool, Rajya Sabha . The Economic Times .
14. News: 2015-02-05 . Saradha scam: TMC MP Srinjoy Bose resigns from party a day after getting bail . The Economic Times .
15. Web site: 2007-02-20 . Chittabrata dead . The Telegraph.
16. Web site: 2010-09-26 . Noted economist Arjun Sengupta dies at 73 . Hindustan Times .