List of nominated members of the Rajya Sabha

Twelve members are nominated to the Rajya Sabha by the President of India for six-years term for their contributions towards arts, literature, sciences, and social services. This right has been bestowed upon the President according to the Fourth Schedule (Articles 4(1) and 80(2)) of the Constitution of India.

Current members[edit]

This is a Current list of Members of the Rajya Sabha who have been nominated by the President.

No.	Name^[1]	Field	Affiliation ^[2]	Date of Appointment^[3]	Date of Retirement^[3]
1	Mahesh Jethmalani	Law	Bharatiya Janata Party	02-Jun-2021	13-Jul-2024
2	Sonal Mansingh	Art	Bharatiya Janata Party	14-Jul-2018	13-Jul-2024
3	Ram Shakal	Social work	Bharatiya Janata Party	14-Jul-2018	13-Jul-2024
4	Rakesh Sinha	Literature	Bharatiya Janata Party	14-Jul-2018	13-Jul-2024
5	Roopa Ganguly	Art	Bharatiya Janata Party	04-Oct-2016	24-Apr-2022
6	Swapan Dasgupta	Journalism	Bharatiya Janata Party	02-Jun-2021	24-Apr-2022
7	Sambhaji Raje	Social work	Bharatiya Janata Party	13-Jun-2016	03-May-2022
8	Suresh Gopi	Art	Bharatiya Janata Party	25-Apr-2016	24-Apr-2022
9	Subramanian Swamy	Economics	Bharatiya Janata Party	25-Apr-2016	24-Apr-2022
10	Ranjan Gogoi	Law	–	19-Mar-2020	18-Mar-2026
11	Mary Kom	Sport	–	25-Apr-2016	24-Apr-2022

Past members[edit]

This is a Complete list of Members of the Rajya Sabha who have been nominated by the President.

Sr. No.	Image	Name	Start of Term	End of Term
1		Alladi Krishnaswamy Iyer	03 April 1952	03 October 1953
2		Satyendranath Bose	03 April 1952	02 July 1959
3		Prithviraj Kapoor	03 April 1952	02 April 1960
4	–	Jagadisan Mohandas Kumarappa	03 April 1952	02 April 1954
5	–	Kalidas Nag	03 April 1952	02 April 1954
6		Rukmini Devi Arundale	03 April 1952	02 April 1962
7	–	N. R. Malkani	03 April 1952	02 April 1962
8	–	Sahib Singh Sokhey	03 April 1952	02 April 1956
9		Zakir Husain	03 April 1952	06 July 1957
10		Maithili Sharan Gupt	03 April 1952	02 April 1964
11		Kaka Kalelkar	03 April 1952	02 April 1964
12	–	Radha Kumud Mukherjee	03 April 1952	02 April 1958
13	File:PV Kane.jpg	Pandurang Vaman Kane	16 November 1953	11 September 1959
14	–	Moturi Satyanarayana	03 April 1954	02 April 1966
15	–	Ardeshir Ruttonji Wadia	03 April 1954	02 April 1966
16	–	Bhargavram Vitthal Warerkar	03 April 1956	23 September 1964
17	–	Tara Chand	22 August 1957	02 April 1968
18	–	Ajudhia Nath Khosla	03 April 1958	04 October 1959
19	–	K. M. Panikkar	25 August 1959	22 May 1961
20	–	Jairamdas Daulatram	19 October 1959	02 April 1976
21	–	Mohanlal Saksena	22 November 1959	02 April 1964
22	–	Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay	03 April 1960	02 April 1966
23	–	V. T. Krishnamachari	09 June 1961	13 February 1964
24	–	R. R. Diwakar	03 April 1962	02 April 1968
25	–	Gopal Singh	03 April 1962	02 April 1968
26	–	M. Ajmal Khan	31 March 1964	18 October 1969
27		Shakuntala Paranjpye	03 April 1964	02 April 1970
28	–	Badri Nath Prasad	03 April 1964	18 January 1966
29	–	G. Ramachandran	03 April 1964	02 April 1970
30	–	Satyavrata Siddhantalankar	25 November 1964	02 April 1968
31	–	M. N. Kaul	30 March 1966	02 April 1972
32	–	Harivansh Rai Bachchan	03 April 1966	02 April 1972
33	–	Dhananjay Ramchandra Gadgil	03 April 1966	31 August 1967
34	–	M. C. Setalvad	03 April 1966	02 April 1972
35		G. Sankara Kurup	03 April 1968	02 April 1972
36		Joachim Alva	03 April 1968	02 April 1974
37		S. Nurul Hasan	03 April 1968	30 September 1971
38	–	K. Ramiah	03 April 1968	02 April 1974
39	–	Ganga Sharan Sinha	03 April 1968	02 April 1974
40	–	Maragatham Chandrasekar	03 April 1970	02 April 1982
40	–	Maragatham Chandrasekar	27 September 1982	29 December 1984
41	–	Umashankar Joshi	03 April 1970	02 April 1976
42	–	Rasheeduddin Khan	03 April 1970	02 April 1982
43	–	Vidya Prakash Dutt	04 December 1971	02 April 1980
44	–	Abu Abraham	03 April 1972	02 April 1978
45	–	Pramathanath Bishi	03 April 1972	02 April 1978
46	–	C. K. Daphtary	03 April 1972	02 April 1978
47	–	Habib Tanvir	03 April 1972	02 April 1978
48	–	Krishna Kriplani	03 April 1974	02 April 1980
49		Lokesh Chandra	03 April 1974	02 April 1986
50	–	Scato Swu	03 April 1974	02 April 1986
51	–	B. N. Banerjee	03 April 1976	02 April 1982
52		Malcolm Adiseshiah	14 April 1978	13 April 1984
53	–	Fathema Ismail	14 April 1978	13 April 1984
54	–	Pandurang Dharmaji Jadhav	14 April 1978	13 April 1984
55	–	Bhagwati Charan Varma	14 April 1978	05 October 1981
56	File:Nargis in Awaara film.jpg	Nargis	03 April 1980	03 May 1981
57		Khushwant Singh	03 April 1980	02 April 1986
58	-	Asima Chatterjee	13 April 1984
58	-	Asima Chatterjee	09 May 1984	08 May 1990
59		Sivaji Ganesan	18 February 1982	02 April 1986
60	–	Hayatullah Ansari	27 September 1982	26 September 1988
61	–	Madan Bhatia	27 September 1982	26 September 1988
61	–	Madan Bhatia	25 November 1988	24 November 1994
62	–	V. N. Tiwari	27 September 1982	03 April 1984
63	–	Ghulam Rasool Kar	09 May 1984	28 December 1987
64	–	Tindivanam K. Ramamurthy	09 May 1984	08 May 1990
65	–	H. L. Kapur	03 January 1985	14 November 1985
66	–	Purushottam Kakodkar	03 January 1985	02 January 1991
67		Salim Ali	04 September 1985	20 June 1987
68		Ela Bhatt	12 May 1986	26 September 1988
69		Amrita Pritam	12 May 1986	11 May 1992
70		M. F. Husain	12 May 1986	11 May 1992
71		R. K. Narayan	12 May 1986	11 May 1992
72		Ravi Shankar	12 May 1986	11 May 1992
73		Anwara Taimur	November 1988	08 May 1990
74	–	Sat Paul Mittal	25 November 1988	12 January 1992
75	–	Bishambhar Nath Pande	25 November 1988	24 November 1994
76		Mohammad Yunus	15 June 1989	14 June 1995
77		Jagmohan	28 May 1990	09 May 1996
78		Prakash Ambedkar	18 September 1990	17 September 1996
79	–	Bhupinder Singh Mann	18 September 1990	17 September 1996
80	–	Russi Karanjia	11 January 1991	10 January 1997
81		Mahendra Prasad	27 August 1993	24 November 1994
82	–	M. Aram	27 August 1993	24 May 1997
83		Vyjayantimala	27 August 1993	26 August 1999
84	–	B. B. Dutta	27 August 1993	26 August 1999
85	–	Habibur Rahman Nomani	27 August 1993	26 August 1999
86		Nirmala Deshpande	27 August 1997	26 August 1999
86		Nirmala Deshpande	24 June 2004	01 May 2008
87		Shabana Azmi	27 August 1997	26 August 2003
88	–	P. Selvie Das	27 August 1997	26 August 2003
89		Kartar Singh Duggal	27 August 1997	26 August 2003
90		Kuldip Nayyar	27 August 1997	26 August 2003
91		Raja Ramanna	27 August 1997	26 August 2003
92		C. Narayana Reddy	27 August 1997	26 August 2003
93		Mrinal Sen	27 August 1997	26 August 2003
94		Harmohan Singh Yadav	27 August 1997	26 August 2003
95		Nanaji Deshmukh	22 November 1999	21 November 2005
96		Lata Mangeshkar	22 November 1999	21 November 2005
97		Fali Sam Nariman	22 November 1999	21 November 2005
98	–	Cho Ramaswamy	22 November 1999	21 November 2005
99		Hema Malini	27 August 2003	26 August 2009
100		Bimal Jalan	27 August 2003	26 August 2009
101		K. Kasturirangan	27 August 2003	08 July 2009
102	–	Narayan Singh Manaklao	27 August 2003	26 August 2009
103		Vidya Niwas Misra	27 August 2003	14 February 2005
104	–	Chandan Mitra	27 August 2003	26 August 2009
105		Dara Singh	27 August 2003	26 August 2009
106		Kapila Vatsyayan	16 February 2006	24 March 2006
106		Kapila Vatsyayan	10 April 2007	15 February 2012
107		Shobhana Bhartia	16 February 2006	15 February 2012
108		Shyam Benegal	16 February 2006	15 February 2012
109		Ram Jethmalani	10 April 2006	26 August 2009
110		M. S. Swaminathan	10 April 2007	09 April 2013
111		C. Rangarajan	09 August 2008	10 August 2009
112	–	H. K. Dua	18 November 2009	17 November 2015
113	–	Ashok Sekhar Ganguly	18 November 2009	17 November 2015
114		Mani Shankar Aiyar	22 March 2010	21 March 2016
115		Javed Akhtar	22 March 2010	21 March 2016
116		B. Jayashree	22 March 2010	21 March 2016
117		Ram Dayal Munda	22 March 2010	30 September 2011
118		Bhalchandra Mungekar	22 March 2010	21 March 2016
119		Anu Aga	27 April 2012	26 April 2018
120		Rekha	27 April 2012	26 April 2018
121		Sachin Tendulkar	27 April 2012	26 April 2018
122	–	Mrinal Miri	29 June 2012	21 March 2016
123	–	K. Parasaran	29 June 2012	28 June 2018
124	–	K. T. S. Tulsi	25 February 2014	24 February 2020
125		Navjot Singh Sidhu	25 April 2016	18 July 2016
126		Pranav Pandya	04 May 2016	11 May 2016
127		Swapan Dasgupta	25 April 2016	16 March 2021
128		Raghunath Mohapatra	14 July 2018	9 May 2021

References[edit]

↑ "Statewise List". 164.100.47.5. Retrieved 12 June 2016.
↑ "STRENGTHWISE PARTY POSITION IN THE RAJYA SABHA". rajyasabha.nic.in. Retrieved 18 July 2018.
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 "Statewise Retirement". 164.100.47.5. Retrieved 12 June 2016.

External links[edit]

Nominated Members since 1952 Narender Kumar
Current list of Nominated Members
Newly Appointed Members on July 14, 2018

[members-1] "Statewise List". 164.100.47.5. Retrieved 12 June 2016.

[2] "STRENGTHWISE PARTY POSITION IN THE RAJYA SABHA". rajyasabha.nic.in. Retrieved 18 July 2018.

[term-3] 3.0 ^3.1 "Statewise Retirement". 164.100.47.5. Retrieved 12 June 2016.

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