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Three posts were created in Andhra Pradesh when YSRCP members Venkataramana Rao Mopidevi, Beedha Masthan Rao Yadav and Ryaga Krishnaiah quit their membership in August and joined the BJP. The terms of Yadav and Krishnaiah as members of the Rajya Sabha were to end on June 21, 2028, while Mopidevi was to retire on June 21, 2026.

The state has eleven seats in the Rajya Sabha, all of which were held by the YSRCP until these three resignations which left three vacancies. The TDP currently has no members in the Rajya Sabha, but after winning 135 of the 175 Assembly seats in the state elections held alongside the general elections, it has the numbers to once again send members to the upper room.

In Odisha, Sujeet Kumar of Biju Janata Dal had resigned on September 6 and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party the same day. After his resignation, the BJD had expelled him with immediate effect for his anti-party activities. His tenure in the Rajya Sabha was to end on April 2, 2026.

Odisha has 10 Rajya Sabha seats, of which seven are occupied by BJD MPs, 2 by BJP MPs and Kumar’s seat is vacant. One of the BJP MPs, Mamata Mohanta, is a BJD defector who had joined the BJP within 24 hours of tendering her resignation on July 31. She was later the BJP candidate in the RS elections for the seat. After the Odisha Assembly elections held this summer, the BJP won 79 of the 147 Assembly seats, while the NDA holds a total of 81 seats, giving the BJP the number needed to send a state RS member.

In West Bengal, Jawhar Sircar of the Trinamool Congress resigned on September 19 and left politics altogether due to the Mamata Banerjee government’s inaction following the RG Kar Medical rape and murder case College. His term also ran until April 2, 2026. The state has 16 seats in the Rajya Sabha, of which 12 are occupied by the TMC, 2 by the BJP and one by the CPI(M). In the state Assembly, the TMC holds 225 of the 294 seats while the BJP has 66 seats.

In Haryana, Krishan Lal Panwar had resigned from the Rajya Sabha on October 14 after being elected as the MP from the state’s Israna constituency. The state has five Rajya Sabha seats, three of which are held by BJP MPs and one by an independent candidate. Of the 90 Haryana assembly seats, the BJP has 48 MLAs and, through the NDA, 51, while the Congress has 37 MLAs.