1970 Rajya Sabha elections

Rajya Sabha elections were held in 1970, to elect members of the Rajya Sabha, Indian Parliament's upper chamber.

Elections

Elections were held in 1970 to elect members from various states. The list is incomplete.

Members elected

The following members are elected in the elections held in 1970. They are members for the term 1970-76 and retire in year 1976, except in case of the resignation or death before the term.

State - Member - Party

Rajya Sabha members for term 1970-1976

State	Member Name	Party	Remark
Assam	Bipinpal Das	INC	R
Assam	Emonsing M Sangma	INC
AP	M R Krishna	INC
AP	K L N Prasad	INC
AP	V B Raju	INC
AP	K Srinivasa Rao	IND
AP	Gaddam Narayana Reddy	INC
AP	Venigalla Satyanarayana	INC
AP	D Sanjivayya	INC	Death 07 May 1972
BH	A Q Ansari	INC	Res. 19/03/1972
BH	Bhola Prasad	CPI
BH	Aziza Imam	INC	elec 20/03/1973
BH	Dharamchand Jain	INC
BH	Shrikant Mishra	JS	Death 01 Oct 1970
BH	Mohammad Chaudhary A	INC	Death 07 Feb 1973
BH	Bhola Paswan Shastri	INC
BH	Shishir Kumar	OTH
BH	Awadeshwar Prasad Sinha	INC
BH	Sitaram Singh	OTH
DL	L K Advani	JS
GJ	Kumud Ben Joshi	INC
GJ	Yogendra Makwana	INC	elec. 05 Mar 1973
GJ	D K Patel	JS
GJ	Manubhai Shah	INC
GJ	Shamprasad R Vasavada	CO	Death 20/11/1972
HP	Roshan Lal	INC
HP	D D Puri	INC
JK	Tirath Ram Amla	INC
JK	Om Mehta	INC
KA	K Nagappa Alva	CO
KA	K S Malle Gowda	INC
KA	B P Nagaraja Murthy	INC
KA	Mulka Govind Reddy	INC
KL	K Chandrasekaran	SP
KL	S. Kumaran	CPI
KL	Dr K Mathew Kurian	CPM
MP	S C Angre	OTH
MP	Balram Das	INC
MP	Vijay Bhushan Deosharan	JP
MP	Chakrapani Shukla	INC
MP	Sawai Singh Sisodia	INC
MP	Bhawani Prasad Tiwary	INC
MH	Shankarrao Bobdey	INC
MH	Babubhai M Chinai	IND	Death 07 July 1975
MH	Mohan Dharia	INC	Res. 10 Mar 1971
MH	V. N. Gadgil	INC
MH	N G Goray	OTH
MH	A. G. Kulkarni	INC
MH	Dahyabhai_Patel	INC	Death 11/08/1973
MH	Sriniwas G. Sardesai	CPI
NOM	Maragatham Chandrasekar	INC
NOM	Jairamdas Daulatram	NOM
NOM	Umashankar Joshi	NOM
NOM	Prof Rasheeduddin Khan	NOM
OR	Bira Kesari Deo	OTH
OR	K P Singh Deo	OTH	elec. 28/01/1972
OR	Binoy Kumar Mahanti	INC
OR	Surajmal Saha	INC	Death 13/09/1971
PB	Bhupinder Singh	SAD
PB	Inder Kumar Gujral	INC
PB	Gurcharan Singh Tohra	SAD
RJ	M U Arif	INC
RJ	Jagdish Prasad Mathur	JS
RJ	Narayani Devi Varma	INC
TN	A K A Abdul Samad	ML
TN	T V Anandan	CO
TN	K Kalyanasudaram	DMK
TN	S S Mariswamy	DMK
TN	S S T Rajendran	DMK
TN	T K Srinivasan	DMK
UP	Uma Shankar Dikshit	INC	Res. 10 Jan 1976
UP	Inder Singh	INC
UP	Kalyan Chand	INC
UP	Nawal Kishore	INC	Death 19/04/1975
UP	Nageshwar Prasad Shahi	OTH
UP	Mahavir Prasad Shukla	INC
UP	Tribhuvan Narain Singh	C-O
UP	Triloki Singh	INC
UP	Dattopant Thengadi	JS
UP	Mahavir Tyagi	CO
UP	Shyamlal_Yadav	INC
WB	Salil Kumar Ganguli	CPM
WB	Bhupesh Gupta	CPI
WB	Purabi Mukhopadhyay	INC
WB	Sasankasekhar Sanyal	CPM
WB	Dwijendralal Sen Gupta	IND

Bye-elections

The following bye elections were held in the year 1970.

State - Member - Party

1. Kerala - H A Schamnad - ML ( ele 05/02/1970 term till 1973 ) d of Kesavan Thazhava
2. Mysore - M Sherkhan - INC ( ele 30/03/1970 term till 1972 )
3. Haryana - Sultan Singh - INC ( ele 31/03/1970 term till 1974 )
4. Nominated - M N Kaul - NOM ( ele 03/04/1970 term till 1972 )
5. Kerala - N K Krishnan - CPI ( ele 10/11/1970 term till 1974 )
6. Bihar - Pratibha Singh - INC ( ele 31/12/1970 term till 1976 )
7. Uttar Pradesh - Shiv Swaroop Singh - INC ( ele 31/12/1970 term till 1972 )