68 Rajya Sabha MPs to retire in 2024, Ashwini Vaishnaw & Bhupender Yadav among BJP's 60
As many as 57 leaders, including railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, education minister Dharmendra Pradhan, environment minister Bhupender Yadav, health minister Mansukh Madaviya and former PM Manmohan Singh, will complete their tenures in April. Uttar Pradesh will have the highest number of vacancies at 10, followed by Maharashtra and Bihar (six each), Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal (five each), Karnataka and Gujarat (four each), Odisha, Telangana, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh (three each), Jharkhand and Rajasthan (two each), and Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana and Chhattisgarh (one each).
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