Leader of the House in Rajya Sabha
The Leader of the House in Rajya Sabha (IAST: Rājya Sabhā ke Sadana Netā) is the leader and parliamentary chairperson of the majority party in the Rajya Sabha and is normally either a cabinet minister or another nominated minister. The Leader of the House is responsible for organising government meetings and business in the House. This office is not enshrined in the constitution and provided under the Rules of Rajya Sabha.
| Leader of the House in Rajya Sabha | |
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| Rājya Sabhā ke Sadana Netā | |
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| Rajya Sabha | |
| Status | Party Leader |
| Member of | Rajya Sabha |
| Reports to | Parliament of India |
| Residence | 8, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi, Delhi, India[1] |
| Formation | May 1952 |
| First holder | N. Gopalaswami Ayyangar (1952–1953) |
| Deputy | Dharmendra Pradhan |
| Salary | ₹330,000 (US$4,100) (excl. allowances) per month |
List of Leader of the House in the Rajya Sabha
The following individuals have held the office of the Leader of the House in the Rajya Sabha:[2]
- Key
- † Assassinated or died in office
| No. | Portrait | Name (born – died) Constituency |
Term of office | Ministerial offices held | Political party | Government | Prime Minister | Chairman (Tenure) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  |
N. Gopalaswamy Ayyangar (1882–1953) MP for Tamil Nadu |
13 May 1952 |
10 February 1953[†] |
Indian National Congress | Nehru II | Jawaharlal Nehru | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1952–1962) | |||
| 2 |  |
Charu Chandra Biswas (1888–1960) MP for West Bengal |
February 1953 |
November 1954 |
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| 3 | .jpg.webp) |
Lal Bahadur Shastri (1904–1966) MP for Uttar Pradesh |
November 1954 |
March 1955 |
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| 4 |  |
Govind Ballabh Pant (1887–1961) MP for Uttar Pradesh |
March 1955 |
March 1961[†] |
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| Nehru III | |||||||||||
| 5 | Hafiz Mohamad Ibrahim (1889–1968) MP for Uttar Pradesh |
March 1961 |
August 1963 |
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| Nehru IV | Zakir Husain (1962–1967) | ||||||||||
| 6 |  |
Yashwantrao Chavan (1913–1984) MP for Maharashtra |
August 1963 |
December 1963 |
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| 7 |  |
Jaisukhlal Hathi (1909–1982) MP for Gujarat |
February 1964 |
March 1964 |
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| 8 |  |
M. C. Chagla (1900–1981) MP for Maharashtra |
March 1964 |
November 1967 |
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| Nanda I | Gulzarilal Nanda | ||||||||||
| Shastri | Lal Bahadur Shastri | ||||||||||
| Nanda II | Gulzarilal Nanda | ||||||||||
| Indira I | Indira Gandhi | V. V. Giri (1967–1969) | |||||||||
| (7) | |
Jaisukhlal Hathi (1909–1982) MP for Gujarat |
November 1967 |
November 1969 |
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| Gopal Swarup Pathak (1969–1974) | |||||||||||
| 9 |  |
Kodardas Kalidas Shah (1908–1986) MP for Gujarat |
November 1969 |
May 1971 |
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| Indira II | |||||||||||
| 10 | Uma Shankar Dikshit (1901–1991) MP for Uttar Pradesh |
May 1971 |
December 1975 |
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| B. D. Jatti (1974–1979) | |||||||||||
| 11 | Kamalapati Tripathi (1905–1990) MP for Uttar Pradesh |
December 1975 |
March 1977 |
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| 12 |  |
Lal Krishna Advani (born 1927) MP for Gujarat |
March 1977 |
August 1979 |
Janata Party | Desai | Morarji Desai | ||||
| Charan | Charan Singh | ||||||||||
| 13 | .jpg.webp) |
Krishna Chandra Pant (1931–2012) MP for Uttar Pradesh |
August 1979 |
January 1980 |
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Indian National Congress (Urs) | Mohammad Hidayatullah (1979–1984) | ||||
| 14 |  |
Pranab Mukherjee (1935–2018) MP for West Bengal (until 1971) MP for Gujarat (from 1971) |
January 1980 |
10 July 1981 |
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Indian National Congress | Indira III | Indira Gandhi | |||
| 14 August 1981 |
December 1984 | ||||||||||
| Ramaswamy Venkataraman (1984–1987) | |||||||||||
| 15 | .jpg.webp) |
Vishwanath Pratap Singh (1931–2008) MP for Uttar Pradesh |
December 1984 |
April 1987 |
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Rajiv | Rajiv Gandhi | ||||
| 16 |  |
Narayan Dutt Tiwari (1925–2018) MP for Uttar Pradesh |
April 1987 |
June 1988 |
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| Shankar Dayal Sharma (1987–1992) | |||||||||||
| 17 | .jpg.webp) |
P. Shiv Shankar (1929–2017) MP for Gujarat |
June 1988 |
December 1989 |
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| 18 |  |
M. S. Gurupadaswamy (1924–2011) MP for Karnataka |
December 1989 |
November 1990 |
Janata Dal | V. P. Singh | V. P. Singh | ||||
| 19 |  |
Yashwant Sinha (born 1937) MP for Bihar |
November 1990 |
June 1991 |
Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya) | Chandra Shekhar | Chandra Shekhar | ||||
| 20 | .jpg.webp) |
Shankarrao Chavan (1920–2004) MP for Maharashtra |
July 1991 |
April 1996 |
Indian National Congress | Rao | P. V. Narasimha Rao | ||||
| K. R. Narayanan (1992–1997) | |||||||||||
| 21 | Sikander Bakht (1918–2004) MP for Madhya Pradesh |
May 1996 |
June 1996 |
Bharatiya Janata Party | Vajpayee I | Atal Bihari Vajpayee | |||||
| 22 |  |
Inder Kumar Gujral (1919–2012) MP for Bihar |
June 1996 |
November 1996 |
Janata Dal | Deve Gowda | H. D. Deve Gowda | ||||
| 23 |  |
H. D. Deve Gowda (born 1933) MP for Karnataka |
November 1996 |
April 1997 |
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Self | |||||
| (22) | |
Inder Kumar Gujral (1919–2012) MP for Bihar |
April 1997 |
March 1998 |
Gujral | Inder Kumar Gujral | |||||
| Krishan Kant (1997–2002) | |||||||||||
| (21) | Sikander Bakht (1918–2004) MP for Madhya Pradesh |
19 March 1998 |
13 October 1999 |
Bharatiya Janata Party | Vajpayee II | Atal Bihari Vajpayee | |||||
| 24 | .jpg.webp) |
Jaswant Singh (1938–2020) MP for Rajasthan |
13 October 1999 |
22 May 2004 |
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Vajpayee III | |||||
| Bhairon Singh Shekhawat (2002–2007) | |||||||||||
| 25 |  |
Manmohan Singh (born 1932) MP for Assam |
22 May 2004 |
26 May 2014 |
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Indian National Congress | Manmohan I | Self | |||
| Manmohan II | Mohammad Hamid Ansari (2007–2017) | ||||||||||
| 26 | .jpg.webp) |
Arun Jaitley (1952–2019) MP for Gujarat (till 2018) MP for Uttar Pradesh (from 2018) |
26 May 2014 |
2 April 2018 |
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Bharatiya Janata Party | Modi I | Narendra Modi | |||
| 3 April 2018 |
11 June 2019 |
M. Venkaiah Naidu (2017–2022) | |||||||||
| 27 | .JPG.webp) |
Thawar Chand Gehlot (born 1948) MP for Madhya Pradesh |
11 June 2019[3] |
6 July 2021 |
Modi II | ||||||
| 28 | .jpg.webp) |
Piyush Goyal (born 1964) MP for Maharashtra |
14 July 2021[4][5] |
Incumbent | |||||||
| Jagdeep Dhankhar (2022–present) | |||||||||||
List of Deputy Leader of the House in Rajya Sabha
| Name (born – died) Constituency |
Term of office | Ministerial offices held | Political party | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Shivraj Patil (born 1935) MP for Maharashtra |
23 May 2004 |
30 November 2008 |
 Indian National Congress | |||
 Arackaparambil Kurien Antony (born 1940) MP for Kerala |
30 November 2008 |
22 May 2009 |
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.jpg.webp) Ghulam Nabi Azad (born 1949) MP for J&K |
28 May 2009 |
26 May 2014 |
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 Manohar Parrikar (1955–2019) MP for Uttar Pradesh |
09 June 2014 |
13 March 2017 |
 Bharatiya Janata Party | |||
%252C_in_New_Delhi.jpg.webp) Ravi Shankar Prasad (born 1954) MP for Bihar |
13 March 2017 |
30 May 2019 |
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Piyush Goyal (born 1964) MP for Maharashtra |
12 June 2019[6][5] | 13 July 2021 |
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 Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi (born 1957) MP for Jharkhand |
19 July 2021[7] |
01 October 2022 |
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.jpg.webp) Dharmendra Pradhan (born 1969) MP for Madhya Pradesh |
04 October 2022 |
02 April 2024 |
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See also
- Vice President of India (Chairperson of the Rajya Sabha)
- Deputy Chairperson of the Rajya Sabha
- Leader of the House in Lok Sabha
- Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha
- Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha
- Secretary General of the Rajya Sabha
References
- http://164.100.47.193/councilofministers/files/councilofministers.pdf
- "Rajya Sabha-Former Leader of House".
- "Thawarchand Gehlot to replace Arun Jaitley as Leader of House in Rajya Sabha". India Today. 11 June 2019. Retrieved 19 July 2021.
- "Piyush Goyal appointed Leader of House in Rajya Sabha". timesnownews.com. 14 July 2021. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
- "Union Minister Piyush Goyal appointed as Leader of House in Rajya Sabha". 14 July 2021. Archived from the original on 25 October 2022. Retrieved 25 October 2022.
- "Piyush Goyal appointed Leader of House in Rajya Sabha". timesnownews.com. 14 July 2021. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
- "Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi appointed Deputy Leader of House in Rajya Sabha". 20 July 2021. Archived from the original on 25 October 2022. Retrieved 25 October 2022.
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