A total of 58 Rajya Sabha members–including eight Central Ministers, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national President JP Nadda–will retire by the first week of May this year.
Mansukh Mandaviya, Bhupender Yadav, Parshottam Rupala, Dharmendra Pradhan, V Murleedharan, Narayan Rane, Rajeev Chandrashekhar and Ashwini Vaishnaw are the eight ministers who will retire by April 2-3, along with 47 other MPs, including Manmohan Singh and Nadda.
Of 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 on Thursday issued summons in a money laundering case months after the Income Tax Department seized Rs 351.8 crore cash from his premises, by May 3.
