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New Delhi: As many as 54 members of the Rajya Sabha including former prime minister Manmohan Singh and nine union ministers are set to retire on Tuesday and Wednesday with some not returning to the Upper House...
Former prime minister Singh ends his 33-year-long parliamentary innings in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday (April 3), just as former party chief Sonia Gandhi will enter the Upper House of Parliament for the first time...
All these Union ministers, except Vaishnaw, are contesting the Lok Sabha elections and have not been given another term in the Upper House...
Abhishek Singhvi of the Congress party, whose tenure in Rajya Sabha ends today will not be in the upper house as he lost his election from Himachal Pradesh...
Among others who will be retiring include BJPs national media in-charge Anil Baluni, who is contesting the Lok Sabha election from Garhwal seat in Uttarakhand, Besides, BJPs Prakash Javadekar, a former union minister and Sushil Kumar Modi, former deputy chief minister of Bihar, also retire from the Rajya Sabha and have not been renominated by the party...
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