Cong at loss;53 RS members retire today
posted on May 13, 2016 @ 11:37AM
In one of the biggest retiring phases in recent time, Rajya Sabha will see 53 members retiring today. There are some big names in the list too like, Venkaiah Naidu, Piyush Goyal, Nirmala Sitaraman, YS Choudhry. Venkaiah Naidu though is likely to be reelected from Karnataka where a vacancy has been created after Vijay Mallya resigned.
Naidu can even come from his home state Andhra Pradesh provided BJP seeks help of ruling Telugu Desam Party. In AP, TDP is likely to get three seats while YSR Congress will get one. In case Naidu comes from AP, Sitharaman, whose two-year term from AP is getting over, will have to be elected from some other state. Naqvi is likely to make it from UP and Choudhry, a TDP member, from AP. Goel will come from Maharashtra. With 65 seats, Congress will be the biggest loser as its 16 members will retire and chances of only a few of them will return to the House.