{"id":14298,"date":"2024-04-03T06:48:30","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T06:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/?p=14298"},"modified":"2024-04-03T06:48:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T06:48:30","slug":"manmohan-singh-ends-33-year-long-innings-in-the-rajya-sabha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/manmohan-singh-ends-33-year-long-innings-in-the-rajya-sabha\/","title":{"rendered":"Manmohan Singh Ends 33-Year-Long Innings In The Rajya Sabha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, Apr 3: As many as 54 members of the <a href=\"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/he-was-in-rs-for-12-yrs-because-of-us-omar-on-ghulam-azads-criticism-of-nc\/\">Rajya Sabha<\/a> including <a href=\"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/pm-lauds-manmohan-singhs-contribution-to-rs-likens-cong-black-paper-to-kaala-teeka\/\">former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh<\/a> and nine Union Ministers are set to retire on April 2 and April 3.<br \/>\nFormer Prime Minister Manmohan 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/2-more-candidates-file-nomination-for-udhampur-lok-sabha-seat\/\">Parliament<\/a> for the first time.<br \/>\nMr. Singh, who is known for ushering in several bold reforms in the economy, became a member of the House for the first time in October 1991. He was the Finance Minister in the Narasimha Rao government from 1991 to 1996 and the Prime Minister from 2004 to 2014.<br \/>\nSonia Gandhi will enter the Upper House for the first time from Rajasthan, filling the seat that will fall vacant after 91-year-old Singh completes his tenure on April 3.<br \/>\nSeven Union ministers \u2014 Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries Minister Purshottam Rupala, Information Technology Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar, MoS External Affairs V Muraleedharan, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Minister Narayan Rane and MoS Information and Broadcasting L Murugan \u2014 end their tenure in the Rajya Sabha on April 2.<br \/>\nEnvironment Minister Bhupendra Yadav and Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw will end their tenure on April 3.<br \/>\nExcept for Mr. VaIshnaw, all the Union Ministers are contesting the Lok Sabha elections. Mr. Vaishnaw has been given another Rajya Sabha term.<br \/>\nAs many as 49 members are retiring on Tuesday (April 2), while five are retiring on Wednesday (April 3).<br \/>\nOf those retiring from the Upper House include Samajwadi Party\u2019s Jaya Bachchan who has been renominated to the Council of States by her party for another term. So is Manoj Kumar Jha, who has been renominated by his party RJD for another term in the <a href=\"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/about-36-rajya-sabha-candidates-declared-criminal-cases-against-themselves-adr\/\">Rajya Sabha<\/a> from Bihar, and Naseer Hussain (Congress), who has been renominated from Karnataka.<br \/>\nAbhishek 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.<br \/>\nAmong others who will be retiring include BJP\u2019s national media in-charge Anil Baluni, who is contesting the Lok Sabha election from Garhwal seat in Uttarakhand, Besides, BJP\u2019s 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.<br \/>\nBJP\u2019s Anil Jain also retires on Tuesday as he has not been given another term by the party and so has Saroj Pandey from Chhattisgarh, who is contesting the Lok Sabha election in the state.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14299\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14299\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14299\" src=\"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-03-at-12.16.27-PM-300x206.png\" alt=\"Manmohan Singh Ends 33-Year-Long Innings In The Rajya Sabha\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14299\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Manmohan Singh Ends 33-Year-Long Innings In The Rajya Sabha<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, Apr 3: As many as 54 members of the Rajya Sabha including former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and nine Union Ministers are set to retire on April 2 and April 3. 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