A total of 58 Rajya Sabha members, including eight Central Ministers like former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national President JP Nadda, will retire by early May this year.

Mansukh Mandaviya, Bhupender Yadav, Parshottam Rupala, Dharmendra Pradhan, V Murleedharan, Narayan Rane, Rajeev Chandrashekhar, and Ashwini Vaishnaw are the eight ministers set to retire by April 2-3, along with 47 notable figures like Manmohan Singh and JP Nadda.

Among the 58 MPs, one will retire on February 23, 55 by April 2-3, and two, including Congress MP Dhiraj Prasad Sahu, against whom the Enforcement Directorate recently issued summons in a money laundering case, by May 3.

The retiring members include 28 from the BJP, 11 from Congress, four from Trinamool Congress, four from Bharat Rashtra Samithi, two each from Biju Janata Dal, Rashtriya Janata Dal, and Janata Dal (United), and one each from YSRCP, Shiv Sena, NCP, Telugu Desam Party, and Sikkim Democratic Front.

Notable figures retiring from the Rajya Sabha include Samajwadi Party’s Jaya Bachchan, BJP’s Anil Baluni and Prakash Javadekar, and BJD’s Amar Patnaik.

The retirement of these MPs, alongside the results of the upcoming general elections, will shape the representation of each party in the Upper House for the next Lok Sabha term.

Presently, the BJP holds 93 seats in the Rajya Sabha, Congress has 30, Trinamool Congress has 13, and there are six nominated members, among others, in a house of 239 with six vacancies.