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Parliament to miss Manmohan as his 30-year Rajya Sabha term ends
Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, also a renowned economist, will be missed in the upcoming Budget session of Parliament as his nearly 30-year-long tenure as Rajya Sabha member ended.
New Delhi: Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, also a renowned economist, will be missed in the upcoming Budget session of Parliament as his nearly 30-year-long tenure as Rajya Sabha member ended. Singh, who is credited with keeping India away from the great recession of 2008, would not be present in the Rajya Sabha for the first time since his first election from Assam in 1991 as he could not make up to the upper House due to Congress' poor strength in the state Assembly.
The Congress could not get him re-elected from Assam as it has only 25 MLAs as against 43 first-preference votes needed. The grand old party would have fallen short of five MLAs had it even got the support of 13 legislators of All India United Democratic Front.
The party even cannot send Singh from other states where Rajya Sabha seats are vacant. With the election of BJP's Kamakhya Prasad Tasa and AGP's Birender Prasad Baishya's unopposed election from Assam, a total of nine seats are lying vacant in Odisha (4), Tamil Nadu (1), Bihar (2) and Gujarat (2).
