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They are members for the term 1966-72 and retire in year 1972, except in case of the resignation or death before the term. </p><p>State - Member - Party </p> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <caption>Rajya Sabha members for term 1966-1972 </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>State</th> <th>Member Name</th> <th>Party</th> <th>Remark </th></tr> <tr> <td>Andhra Pradesh</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kota_Punnaiah" title="Kota Punnaiah">Kota Punnaiah</a></td> <td>INC</td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Andhra Pradesh</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Akbar_Ali_Khan_(politician)" title="Akbar Ali Khan (politician)">Akbar Ali Khan</a></td> <td>INC</td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Andhra Pradesh</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Neelam_Sanjiva_Reddy" title="Neelam Sanjiva Reddy">Neelam Sanjiva Reddy</a></td> <td>INC</td> <td>24/02/1967 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Andhra Pradesh</td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=J_C_Nagi_Reddy&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="J C Nagi Reddy (page does not exist)">J C Nagi Reddy</a></td> <td>INC</td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Andhra Pradesh</td> <td>M V Bhadram</td> <td>CPI </td></tr> <tr> <td>Assam</td> <td>Dr <a href="/wiki/Fakhruddin_Ali_Ahmed" title="Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed">Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed</a></td> <td>INC</td> <td>25/02/1967 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Assam</td> <td>Usha Barthakur</td> <td>INC </td></tr> <tr> <td>Assam</td> <td>Purakayastha Mahitosh</td> <td>INC</td> <td>res 21/03/1972 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Bihar</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bhupendra_Narayan_Mandal" title="Bhupendra Narayan Mandal">Bhupendra Narayan Mandal</a></td> <td>SSP </td></tr> <tr> <td>Bihar</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Rajendra_Pratap_Sinha" title="Rajendra Pratap Sinha">Rajendra Pratap Sinha</a></td> <td>INC </td></tr> <tr> <td>Bihar</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sheel_Bhadra_Yajee" title="Sheel Bhadra Yajee">Sheel Bhadra Yajee</a></td> <td>INC </td></tr> <tr> <td>Bihar</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lalit_Narayan_Mishra" title="Lalit Narayan Mishra">Lalit Narayan Mishra</a></td> <td>INC</td> <td>02/02/1972 LS </td></tr> <tr> <td>Bihar</td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shyamnandan_Mishra&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Shyamnandan Mishra (page does not exist)">Shyamnandan Mishra</a></td> <td>INC</td> <td>11/03/1971 LS </td></tr> <tr> <td>Bihar</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Pratul_Chandra_Mitra" title="Pratul Chandra Mitra">Pratul Chandra Mitra</a></td> <td>INC </td></tr> <tr> <td>Bihar</td> <td>Raghunath Prasad Khaitan</td> <td>INC </td></tr> <tr> <td>Delhi</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Shanta_Vasisht" title="Shanta Vasisht">Shanta Vasisht</a></td> <td>INC </td></tr> <tr> <td>Gujarat</td> <td>Biharilal N Antani</td> <td>OTH</td> <td>Dea. 16/09/1971 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Gujarat</td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=K_S_Chavda&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="K S Chavda (page does not exist)">K S Chavda</a></td> <td>INC</td> <td>10/03/1971 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Gujarat</td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Suresh_J_Desai&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Suresh J Desai (page does not exist)">Suresh J Desai</a></td> <td>INC </td></tr> <tr> <td>Gujarat</td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kodardas_K_Shah&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kodardas K Shah (page does not exist)">Kodardas K Shah</a></td> <td>INC</td> <td>res 22/05/1971 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Gujarat</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Pushpaben_Mehta" title="Pushpaben Mehta">Pushpaben Mehta</a></td> <td>CO </td></tr> <tr> <td>Jammu & Kashmir</td> <td>Gulam Nabi Untoo</td> <td>INC </td></tr> <tr> <td>Madras</td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=N_Ramakrishna_Iyer&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="N Ramakrishna Iyer (page does not exist)">N Ramakrishna Iyer</a></td> <td>OTH </td></tr> <tr> <td>Madras</td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=T_Chengalvaroyan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="T Chengalvaroyan (page does not exist)">T Chengalvaroyan</a></td> <td>INC </td></tr> <tr> <td>Madras</td> <td>R T Parthasarathy</td> <td>OTH </td></tr> <tr> <td>Madras</td> <td>G P Somasundaram</td> <td>DMK</td> <td>dea 25/06/1971 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Madras</td> <td>N R M Swamy</td> <td>INC </td></tr> <tr> <td>Madhya Pradesh</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Nand_Kishore_Bhatt" title="Nand Kishore Bhatt">Nand Kishore Bhatt</a></td> <td>INC </td></tr> <tr> <td>Madhya Pradesh</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Vidyawati_Chaturvedi" title="Vidyawati Chaturvedi">Vidyawati Chaturvedi</a></td> <td>INC </td></tr> <tr> <td>Madhya Pradesh</td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_D_Mani&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="A D Mani (page does not exist)">A D Mani</a></td> <td>IND </td></tr> <tr> <td>Madhya Pradesh</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Niranjan_Varma" title="Niranjan Varma">Niranjan Varma</a></td> <td>JS </td></tr> <tr> <td>Maharashtra</td> <td><a href="/wiki/B.D._Khobragade" class="mw-redirect" title="B.D. Khobragade">B.D. Khobragade</a></td> <td>RPI </td></tr> <tr> <td>Maharashtra</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Gulabrao_Patil" title="Gulabrao Patil">Gulabrao Patil</a></td> <td>INC </td></tr> <tr> <td>Maharashtra</td> <td><a href="/wiki/M_C_Chagla" class="mw-redirect" title="M C Chagla">M C Chagla</a></td> <td>INC </td></tr> <tr> <td>Maharashtra</td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vithalrao_T_Nagpure&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Vithalrao T Nagpure (page does not exist)">Vithalrao T Nagpure</a></td> <td>INC </td></tr> <tr> <td>Maharashtra</td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=B_S_Savnekar&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="B S Savnekar (page does not exist)">B S Savnekar</a></td> <td>INC </td></tr> <tr> <td>Maharashtra</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Asoka_Mehta" title="Asoka Mehta">Asoka Mehta</a></td> <td>INC</td> <td>res 26/02/1967 LS </td></tr> <tr> <td>Manipur</td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sinam_Krishnamohan_Singh&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sinam Krishnamohan Singh (page 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title="Hayatullah Ansari">Hayatullah Ansari</a></td> <td>INC </td></tr> <tr> <td>Uttar Pradesh</td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arjun_Arora&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Arjun Arora (page does not exist)">Arjun Arora</a></td> <td>INC </td></tr> <tr> <td>Uttar Pradesh</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sukhdev_Prasad" title="Sukhdev Prasad">Sukhdev Prasad</a></td> <td>INC </td></tr> <tr> <td>Uttar Pradesh</td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mustafa_Rashid_Shervani&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mustafa Rashid Shervani (page does not exist)">Mustafa Rashid Shervani</a></td> <td>INC </td></tr> <tr> <td>Uttar Pradesh</td> <td><a href="/wiki/M_S_Gurupadaswamy" class="mw-redirect" title="M S Gurupadaswamy">M S Gurupadaswamy</a></td> <td>INC </td></tr> <tr> <td>Uttar Pradesh</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Raj_Narain" title="Raj Narain">Raj Narain</a></td> <td>OTH </td></tr> <tr> <td>Uttar Pradesh</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Hira_Vallabha_Tripathi" class="mw-redirect" title="Hira 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href="/w/index.php?title=Mriganka_M_Sur&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mriganka M Sur (page does not exist)">Mriganka M Sur</a></td> <td>INC </td></tr> <tr> <td>West Bengal</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Biren_Roy" title="Biren Roy">Biren Roy</a></td> <td>INC </td></tr> <tr> <td>West Bengal</td> <td>Arun Prakash Chatterjee</td> <td>CPM</td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bye-elections">Bye-elections</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1966_Rajya_Sabha_elections&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Bye-elections"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The following bye elections were held in the year 1966. </p><p>State - Member - Party </p> <ol><li>MP - <a href="/wiki/Chakrapani_Shukla" title="Chakrapani Shukla">Chakrapani Shukla</a> - INC ( ele 08/02/1966 term till 1970 )</li> <li>Rajasthan - <a 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Members</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Rajya_Sabha_members_from_the_Aam_Aadmi_Party" title="List of Rajya Sabha members from the Aam Aadmi Party">Aam Aadmi Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Rajya_Sabha_members_from_the_Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="List of Rajya Sabha members from the Bharatiya Janata Party">Bharatiya Janata Party</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Members by <a href="/wiki/States_and_union_territories_of_India" title="States and union territories of India">State</a> <br /> or <a href="/wiki/Union_territory" title="Union territory">Union Territory</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Rajya_Sabha_members_from_Andhra_Pradesh" title="List of Rajya Sabha members from Andhra Pradesh">Andhra Pradesh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Rajya_Sabha_members_from_Arunachal_Pradesh" title="List of Rajya Sabha members from Arunachal Pradesh">Arunachal Pradesh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Rajya_Sabha_members_from_Assam" title="List of Rajya Sabha members from Assam">Assam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Rajya_Sabha_members_from_Bihar" title="List of Rajya Sabha members from Bihar">Bihar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Rajya_Sabha_members_from_Chhattisgarh" title="List of Rajya Sabha members from Chhattisgarh">Chhattisgarh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Rajya_Sabha_members_from_Delhi" title="List of Rajya Sabha members from Delhi">Delhi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Rajya_Sabha_members_from_Goa" title="List of Rajya Sabha members from Goa">Goa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Rajya_Sabha_members_from_Gujarat" title="List of Rajya Sabha members from Gujarat">Gujarat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Rajya_Sabha_members_from_Haryana" title="List of Rajya Sabha members from Haryana">Haryana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Rajya_Sabha_members_from_Himachal_Pradesh" title="List of Rajya Sabha members from Himachal Pradesh">Himachal Pradesh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Rajya_Sabha_members_from_Jammu_and_Kashmir" title="List of Rajya Sabha members from Jammu and Kashmir">Jammu and Kashmir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Rajya_Sabha_members_from_Jharkhand" title="List of Rajya Sabha members from Jharkhand">Jharkhand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Rajya_Sabha_members_from_Karnataka" title="List of Rajya Sabha members from Karnataka">Karnataka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Rajya_Sabha_members_from_Kerala" title="List of Rajya Sabha members from Kerala">Kerala</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Rajya_Sabha_members_from_Madhya_Pradesh" title="List of Rajya Sabha members from Madhya Pradesh">Madhya Pradesh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Rajya_Sabha_members_from_Maharashtra" title="List of Rajya Sabha members from Maharashtra">Maharashtra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Rajya_Sabha_members_from_Manipur" title="List of Rajya Sabha members from Manipur">Manipur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Rajya_Sabha_members_from_Meghalaya" title="List of Rajya Sabha members from Meghalaya">Meghalaya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Rajya_Sabha_members_from_Mizoram" title="List of Rajya Sabha members from Mizoram">Mizoram</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Rajya_Sabha_members_from_Nagaland" title="List of Rajya Sabha members from Nagaland">Nagaland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Rajya_Sabha_members_from_Odisha" title="List of Rajya Sabha members from Odisha">Odisha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Rajya_Sabha_members_from_Puducherry" title="List of Rajya Sabha members from Puducherry">Puducherry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Rajya_Sabha_members_from_Punjab" title="List of Rajya Sabha members from Punjab">Punjab</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Rajya_Sabha_members_from_Rajasthan" title="List of Rajya Sabha members from Rajasthan">Rajasthan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Rajya_Sabha_members_from_Sikkim" title="List of Rajya Sabha members from Sikkim">Sikkim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Rajya_Sabha_members_from_Tamil_Nadu" title="List of Rajya Sabha members from Tamil Nadu">Tamil Nadu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Rajya_Sabha_members_from_Telangana" title="List of Rajya Sabha members from Telangana">Telangana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Rajya_Sabha_members_from_Tripura" title="List of Rajya Sabha members from Tripura">Tripura</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Rajya_Sabha_members_from_Uttar_Pradesh" title="List of Rajya Sabha members from Uttar Pradesh">Uttar Pradesh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Rajya_Sabha_members_from_Uttarakhand" title="List of Rajya Sabha members from Uttarakhand">Uttarakhand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Rajya_Sabha_members_from_West_Bengal" title="List of Rajya Sabha members from West Bengal">West Bengal</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Elections_in_India" title="Elections in India">Elections</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1952_Rajya_Sabha_elections" title="1952 Rajya Sabha elections">1952</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1953_Rajya_Sabha_elections" title="1953 Rajya Sabha elections">1953</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1954_Rajya_Sabha_elections" title="1954 Rajya Sabha elections">1954</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1955_Rajya_Sabha_elections" title="1955 Rajya Sabha elections">1955</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1956_Rajya_Sabha_elections" title="1956 Rajya Sabha elections">1956</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1957_Rajya_Sabha_elections" title="1957 Rajya Sabha elections">1957</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1958_Rajya_Sabha_elections" title="1958 Rajya Sabha elections">1958</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1959_Rajya_Sabha_elections" title="1959 Rajya Sabha elections">1959</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1960_Rajya_Sabha_elections" title="1960 Rajya Sabha elections">1960</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1961_Rajya_Sabha_elections" title="1961 Rajya Sabha elections">1961</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1962_Rajya_Sabha_elections" title="1962 Rajya Sabha elections">1962</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1963_Rajya_Sabha_elections" title="1963 Rajya Sabha elections">1963</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1964_Rajya_Sabha_elections" title="1964 Rajya Sabha elections">1964</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1965_Rajya_Sabha_elections" title="1965 Rajya Sabha elections">1965</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">1966</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1967_Rajya_Sabha_elections" title="1967 Rajya Sabha elections">1967</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1968_Rajya_Sabha_elections" title="1968 Rajya Sabha elections">1968</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1969_Rajya_Sabha_elections" title="1969 Rajya Sabha elections">1969</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1970_Rajya_Sabha_elections" title="1970 Rajya Sabha elections">1970</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1971_Rajya_Sabha_elections" title="1971 Rajya Sabha elections">1971</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1972_Rajya_Sabha_elections" title="1972 Rajya Sabha elections">1972</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1973_Rajya_Sabha_elections" title="1973 Rajya Sabha elections">1973</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1974_Rajya_Sabha_elections" title="1974 Rajya Sabha elections">1974</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1975_Rajya_Sabha_elections" title="1975 Rajya Sabha elections">1975</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1976_Rajya_Sabha_elections" title="1976 Rajya Sabha elections">1976</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1977_Rajya_Sabha_elections" title="1977 Rajya Sabha elections">1977</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1978_Rajya_Sabha_elections" title="1978 Rajya Sabha elections">1978</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1979_Rajya_Sabha_elections" title="1979 Rajya Sabha elections">1979</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1980_Rajya_Sabha_elections" title="1980 Rajya Sabha elections">1980</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1981_Rajya_Sabha_elections" title="1981 Rajya Sabha elections">1981</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1982_Rajya_Sabha_elections" title="1982 Rajya Sabha elections">1982</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1983_Rajya_Sabha_elections" title="1983 Rajya Sabha elections">1983</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1984_Rajya_Sabha_elections" title="1984 Rajya Sabha elections">1984</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1985_Rajya_Sabha_elections" title="1985 Rajya Sabha elections">1985</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1986_Rajya_Sabha_elections" title="1986 Rajya Sabha elections">1986</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1987_Rajya_Sabha_elections" title="1987 Rajya Sabha elections">1987</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1988_Rajya_Sabha_elections" title="1988 Rajya Sabha elections">1988</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1989_Rajya_Sabha_elections" title="1989 Rajya Sabha elections">1989</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1990_Rajya_Sabha_elections" title="1990 Rajya Sabha elections">1990</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1991_Rajya_Sabha_elections" title="1991 Rajya Sabha elections">1991</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1992_Rajya_Sabha_elections" title="1992 Rajya Sabha elections">1992</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1993_Rajya_Sabha_elections" title="1993 Rajya Sabha elections">1993</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1994_Rajya_Sabha_elections" title="1994 Rajya Sabha elections">1994</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1995_Rajya_Sabha_elections" title="1995 Rajya Sabha elections">1995</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1996_Rajya_Sabha_elections" title="1996 Rajya Sabha elections">1996</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1997_Rajya_Sabha_elections" title="1997 Rajya Sabha elections">1997</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1998_Rajya_Sabha_elections" title="1998 Rajya Sabha elections">1998</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1999_Rajya_Sabha_elections" title="1999 Rajya Sabha elections">1999</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2000_Rajya_Sabha_elections" title="2000 Rajya Sabha 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